Archive for April, 2002
UNICEF fears massacre of child army
(Guardian)
Up to 5,000 child fighters have been encircled by Sudanese and Ugandan troops in southern Sudan, in readiness for an all-out assault on the cultish rebel army.
Al Barakaat closure a mistake?
(NYTimes)
Did the US make a mistake when it closed down one of Somalia’s largest employers? The NYTImes thinks so: “Five months later, however, some United States officials now acknowledge that the evidence of Al Barakaat’s backing for terrorism is more tenuous. Some European countries that assisted in shutting down Al Barakaat say proof of a [...]
Economics Reporting Review
The Economics Reporting Review is CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker’s weekly analysis of business and economics articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Cotton and Water in India
The web site, CorpWatch India, has a very thoughtful and well balanced article about the events surrounding the introduction of Bt Cotton seed into India by the Monsanto corporation. This article about the water supply in Chennai is also interesting.
China admits there are cracks in the dam
(BBC)
A senior Chinese official says cracks have appeared in the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam being built on the Yangtze river.
Krugman: who is a crony capitalist?
(NYTimes)
Many of the business executives recently appointed to government positions first entered the private sector after prior careers in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. … (Dick Cheney is the quintessential example.) So are they really good businessmen, or are they just crony capitalists, men who have lived by their connections?
Only Sharon could make Yasir Arafat into a hero!
(NYTimes)
Nicholas Kristof Op Ed on Israel. Nothing new, but well written.
Online Companies Switch Privacy Policies on Us
(NYTimes)
Pressed for profits, Internet companies are increasingly selling access to their users’ postal mail addresses and telephone numbers, in addition to flooding their e-mail boxes with junk mail.
Intifada Fact Sheet
The Electronic Intifada has a link to this list of rather depressing statistics on the Palestine Monitor web site.
Israel seeks to create a wall
(Washington Post)
Perhaps most striking is the series of fences and walls rising piecemeal along stretches of borderland between central Israeli towns that hug the West Bank, from the Palestinian town of Qalqilyah north to Tulkarm. Some are electrified, topped with barbed wire and equipped with video surveillance cameras. Not long ago, Sharon and top military [...]
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