WorldWatch Report Says War On Terror Diverting Attention From Poverty, Disease,

I would highly recommend reading WorldWatch’s State of The World Report
This article is Joe De Capua’s take on the report for Voice of America News. Voice of America is the U.S. State Department’s radio (and internet) news broadcasting service. VOA was created in 1942 as a wartime propaganda tool and is restricted from transmitting to American audiences. Among its other responsibilities, VOA broadcasts Radio Sawa, which aims to win the hearts and minds of Arabic speakers around the world using American pop music and cultural values. In contrast I would also like to present what AllAfrica News has to say about the WorldWatch report in their article by Jim Lobe. There’s an interesting dichotomy between black and white.

The WorldWatch Institute says the global war on terror is diverting attention from the main causes of instability. Its annual State of the World report says poverty, disease and environmental decline are the true axis of evil. However, critics dispute the findings and say the United States can battle terror and meet humanitarian needs at the same time.

The WorldWatch report says, “Acts of terror and the dangerous actions they provoke are symptomatic of underlying sources of global insecurity.” These include poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation and rising competition over oil. It says unless these issues are tackled, they could “lead the world into a dangerous downward spiral.”

Senior researcher Michael Renner is a project director for the State of the World report.

He says, “In the years after the September 11th attacks, obviously the focus has been so much on the issues surrounding Al Qaida. And then of course since the start of the Iraq invasion, I think that has really just taken center stage so much, particularly, of course, in the United States. And I think it has really just had the effect of crowding out often I think less visible…

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