What is going on in North Korea?

Take a look at these articles:

US 'will not stop' N Korea rocket and North Korean missile is challenge to Obama

New York Times Article

Toxic Asset Plan Foresees Big Subsidies for Investors: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/business/21bank.html?_r1&hp 

Read it!

Crisis of Credit

This is the clip that we watched the other day in class about the "Crisis of Credit":

www.crisisofcredit.com

Check it out this weekend!

Guardian Podcasts

Another easy way to access international news stories. Listen to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/audio.

CBC: Dispatches

Download this podcast online at: http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches 

"Dispatches is a weekly radio program of reports and documentaries by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's correspondents and other journalists on assignment outside of Canada."

Perspective

"The most distinctive mark of a cultured mind is the ability to take another's point of view; to put one's self in another's place, and see life and its problems from a point of view different from one's own." (Pettinger)

Welcome!

We will be using this tool over the course of the next few weeks to investigate and learn about a number of different world issues. Please check back frequentely to see what updates have been added to the site.

If you find something interesting or applicable to what we are talking about in class please let me know and I will post it up for the rest of the class to check out!