This website is extremely useful when it comes to getting quality information about some of the "global issues that affect everyone".

The author of the website did research on the following issues (The number in the brackets is represents articles related to each issue) :

• Arms Control (4)
• Arms Trade—a major cause of suffering (8)
• Biodiversity (8)
• Causes of Poverty (12)
• Climate Change and Global Warming (22)
• Conflicts in Africa (9)
• Consumption and Consumerism (13)
• Corporations (13)
• Environmental Issues (46)
• Fair Trade (4)
• Food and Agriculture Issues (21)
• Food Dumping [Aid] Maintains Poverty (3)
• Foreign Policy — Projecting Power (8)
• Free Trade and Globalization (14)
• G8: Too Much Power? (4)
• Genetically Engineered Food (10)
• Geopolitics (40)
• Health Issues (12)
• Human Population (11)
• Human Rights Issues (10)
• International Criminal Court (6)
• Iraq Crisis (3)
• Mainstream Media (12)
• Middle East (16)
• Natural Disasters (5)
• Nuclear Weapons (5)
• Palestine and Israel (6)
• Sustainable Development (10)
• Third World Debt Undermines Development (11)
• Trade, Economy, & Related Issues (68)
• War on Terror (12)
• World Hunger and Poverty (3)

For starters check out Middle East, Global Financial Crises and Global Warming.

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