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The Case For Invading Myanmar
09 May 2008
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bg
Southeast Asia May 10, 2008 The case for invading Myanmar By Shawn
W Crispin BANGKOK - With United States warships and air force
planes at the ready, and over 1 million of Myanmar's citizens left
bedraggled, homeless and susceptible to water-borne diseases by
Cyclone Nagris, the natural disaster presents an opportunity in
crisis for the US. A unilateral - and potentially United
Nations-approved - US military intervention in the name of
humanitarianism could easily turn the tide against the impoverished
country's unpopular military leaders, and simultaneously
rehabilitate the legacy of lame-duck US President George W Bush's
controversial pre-emptive military policies….
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McCain, Obama, Clinton Silent on Iraq Exit. By Dahr Jamail
06 May 2008
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chuck d'adamo
Publisher:
Le Monde Diplomatique (May 2008)
When it became clear that the presidential primaries would be the news story of the year in the US, Iraq was dropped by the media. The occupation and the campaign for the presidential nominations were de-linked almost from the start. What the potential candidates would do in Iraq? No information, but pulling troops out doesn't seem to be an option for any of them. 65% of people in the US oppose the occupation—yet Obama, Clinton and McCain march towards the election with the media not challenging their ambivalent positions on Iraq. Dahr Jamail reports.
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Success Breeds Failure
05 May 2008
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Der Spiegel
Now that the financial clouds have lifted a bit, the pushback against sensible regulation is in full swing. Wall Street did an end run around regulation. There's every reason to believe that the next crisis will be bigger still-and the Fed won't have enough duct tape to hold things together.
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Global Food Crisis: The Fury of the Poor
29 Apr 2008
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Der Spiegel
What we are beginning to face is not just an acute bottleneck, but a worldwide, fundamental food crisis. The crisis is so dire that it is obliterating any progress made in recent years in fighting disease and starvation.
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About ABC: An Open Letter
19 Apr 2008
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chuck d'adamo
Publisher:
The Guardian
US elections 2008: An open letter from a group of prominent US journalists and commentators deplores American Broadcasting Corporation's Democratic Party candidate debate moderated by George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson last Wednesday.
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The Cowboy and the Shepherd
19 Apr 2008
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Publisher:
Der Spiegel
Liberation theology deconstructs cowboys and shepherds, leaders of authorities in fast decline, as prodigal sons, demon-possessed and Pharisees opposed to peace and self-determination.
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Civil Society by Stephen Hume
18 Apr 2008
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The Vancouver Sun
Improvements in people's lives often have come about when society listened to voices on the periphery, not just the political and economic elites.
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World Food Crisis Threatens Rich Nations (That's Us), Too
17 Apr 2008
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The Vancouver Sun
Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a price contagion, leaving no country-developed or otherwise-unscathed, India's finance minister warned
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