While extending my warm greetings to all the Tibetans in Tibet, I would like to share some of my thoughts.

The bigger the social differences in and between societies are, the stronger are their conflicts. There is only one region worldwide where the stronger have systematically supported the weaker over decades and thus created a convergence of living standards: the European Union. By Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl 

Today, I extend heartfelt greetings to my Chinese brothers and sisters around the world, particularly to those in the People’s Republic of China. In the light of the recent developments in Tibet, I would like to share with you my thoughts concerning relations between the Tibetan and Chinese peoples, and make a personal appeal to all of you.

Many of the world's poorest regions could face severe crop losses in the next two decades because of climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE). Their findings will be published in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Science.

From the point of view of the owner of a medium-sized company, I would like to spread some confidence concerning clearly defined requirements for a more humane world: a more humane world, which particularly addresses the fundamental right to work. By Johannes Rahe

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prizewinner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that.

Climate change is making a central assumption of water management obsolete: Water-resource risk assessment and planning are currently based on the notion that factors such as precipitation and streamflow fluctuate within an unchanging envelope of variability.

Meet Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world.

Scientific counseling in economic policy uses a triangle of tools to reach selected goals from a given state: state analysis, economic goal definition and designation of tools. I want to utilize these parameters in my contribution. By Dr. Martin Büscher

In this week hundreds of Kenyans have been killed, churches have been put on fire, huts have been burned to the ground and thousands of people have been injured. More than 100.000 people are on the run – human hunt in East Africa. A civil war threatens to break out because the opposition feels cheated out of their electoral victory.