Global Pulse: July 9, 2010. If you must experience a devastating industrial accident, pray you live in a rich and powerful country. Americans are justifiably angry, but they have 24-hour tar ball removal, a hotline for oiled birds, and a 20 billion dollar compensation fund. In Bhopal, India, tens of thousands were killed 25 years [...]

Global Pulse: June 25, 2010) The recent announcement of vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan sent salesman-in-chief Hamid Karzai to Japan to pitch the allies, while the mastermind of the minerals survey at the Department of Defense arranged publicity here in the U.S. A controversial New York Times article quoted General David Petraeus calling the assessment [...]

(Global Pulse: June 11, 2010) The U.S. could use a nice distraction, why not the World Cup? The fans worldwide are ready, and so are South Africa’s new stadiums. Someone built a fake shanty-town for housing tourists, and a real one for formerly homeless South Africans. But if you can’t make it to Johannesburg, you [...]

The “War on Drugs” has created a drug war in Mexico. Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration is an attempt to address the results, but fails to get to the heart of the problem. Reducing U.S. demand for drugs and the flow of guns to Mexico could alleviate the violence — but the U.S. seems more [...]

(Global Pulse: April 16, 2010) A question being hotly debated by bloggers: who is buried in worse debt, Greece or California? News reports lean towards Greece as the real basket case, while TV news loves any reason to show video of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both Greece and California are cutting deep to balance the books, and [...]

(Global Pulse: April 2, 2010) Cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Europe echo decade-old events in the U.S. - but the Vatican has responded very differently. As evidence is revealed that shows the Pope may have been a part of the scandal, should something have been learned from the American experience?
SOURCES: AL Jazeera [...]

(Global Pulse: August 28, 2009) The U.S. health care debate is raging, and other developed countries are part of the argument — though not always willingly.
SOURCES: CCTV, China; BBC, U.K.; KBS, S. Korea; Fox News, U.S.; CBS News, U.S.; CNN, U.S.

(Global Pulse: March 11, 2010) This week Global Pulse revisits China and its relationship with the U.S. and the world, from our 2009 Year-End Special. This overview of China’s changing role in the turbulent global economy includes an interview with Wayne Silby, chairman of the board of Calvert Social Investment Foundation, and an unusually deep [...]

(Global Pulse: February 26, 2010) The U.S. isn’t the only country with an obesity problem. This week’s Global Pulse looks at the tactics being deployed worldwide by nations facing an epidemic of obesity. Looking to combat unwanted effects of our modern era’s sedentary lifestyle, countries are harkening back to the salad days with campaigns encouraging [...]

(Global Pulse: January 29, 2010) Despite the epic nature of the disaster in Haiti, this overview of worldwide news coverage of the earthquake reveals that media still found time to commend their nation’s rescuers, promote their own star journalists, and even get in some digs at the U.S. While the coverage raised awareness and donations [...]