29 September 2008
Palestinian economy: from bad to wretched
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Ramzy Baroud
The numbers are grim, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian economy is in one of its most wretched states, and the disaster is mostly, if not entirely manmade, thus reversible.

The World Bank made no...
29 September 2008
Why the bailout vote may fail
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David Swanson
Today's vote on the Paulson Plunder Act of 2008 may fail. It should. You should help block it by phoning your representative right now at (202) 224-3121 and promising to vote for them in November only if they vote NO on this grand...
20 August 2008
Family politics and the new Gaza crisis
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Ramzy Baroud
Yet more haunting images of blindfolded, stripped down Palestinian men being contemptuously dragged by soldiers in uniform from one place to another. Yet more footage of bloodied men lying on hospital beds describing their ordeals to...
19 August 2008
Harper again serves as Bush's mouthpiece in Canada.
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Jim Miles
While eastern Canada suffers unseasonable rains, the west enjoys its average warm/hot summer. In the Middle East however, the heat is rising in the geo-political field.

I noticed an article in the local paper (The Province,...
19 August 2008
Thaksin is the world's newest international fugitive
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The world's newest international fugitive from arrest is a wealthy, square-faced man with a PhD. in criminal justice from a university in Texas, and a former hand-holding ally of U.S. President George W. Bush.
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12 August 2008
Global trends that will shape the next decade
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Muqtedar Khan
We live in a time when rapid change is the norm. We experience more technological, cultural and political transformation in a decade now, than there was change over centuries in the past. Globalization has put history in a permanent fast...

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