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Why Debt at Dubai World Is Shaking World Financial Markets
As conglomerate Dubai World delays debt payments, most analysts look for Arab Monetary Fund to step in to avert a crisis in financial markets. That's not likely, though, until …
Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance
With Obama pushing a huge troop escalation in Afghanistan, history may well repeat itself with a vengeance. And it's not just the apt comparison to LBJ, who destroyed his …
Argentine Dirty War Victims Cautiously Embrace Trials, Hope for More
Buenos Aires, Argentina - In July 1977, when Ana Maria Careaga was just sixteen years old, she was kidnapped off a major intersection in Buenos Aires by forces from …
Good for Children, Good for Society
“Children's development is the wealth of nations.” The expression, borrowed from Adam Smith, has a strange resonance when children's development is ever less a priority for our rulers whose …
Good for Children, Good for Society (2)
“Children's development is the wealth of nations.” The expression, borrowed from Adam Smith, has a strange resonance when children's development is ever less a priority for our rulers whose …
Obama’s Secret Climate Pact
Richard Wolffe, The Daily Beast reports that there is a reason China and the White House have announced they will go to Copenhagen with plans for emissions reduction. White …
Obama’s Secret Climate Pact (2)
Richard Wolffe, The Daily Beast reports that there is a reason China and the White House have announced they will go to Copenhagen with plans for emissions reduction. White …
Obama’s Profile in Courage, or Cave-In?
“It took a lot of courage on Kennedy’s part to defy the Pentagon, defy the military — and do the right thing,” said Col. Larry Wilkerson, USA (ret.), according …
Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains. What are we getting in return for …
Purloined E-mails Don’t Change the Facts
Washington - Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week — portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously …