The Jonesboro tragedy focused our attention on a national problem years in the making. Our children are robbing us, assaulting us, raping us and even murdering us. Do we know how to stop youth crime?

The most profound and significant event since the fall of the Berlin Wall is about to break onto the world scene. It will change the whole framework of existing global political, economic and financial cooperation.

In Southeast Asia, currency devaluations and other austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund are devastationg common workers while wealthy investors and bankers are being bailed out. Fair? No. Typical? Very!