Global Solutions conference at LaRoche

Global Problems, Global Solutions Conference:

Leadership Action for Today and Tomorrow.

Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29. LaRoche College hosts

this forum on important global issues such as gender equality, human rights,

war and poverty. For more details, see:

http://www.laroche.edu/globalproblems/home.htm

US ready to end farm subsidies

FINALLY!

The US today offered to end farm subsidies by 2010 in a bid to claim the moral high ground in stalled world trade talks.

The US proposal will be put to a special meeting of 15 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the EU, Australia, Brazil and Canada. ...