We arrived early, but the field was already packed with an ecstatic crowd waiting to hear the one man who they believed could actually turn the country around. Chants echoed from the nearby road. Hope was in the air.
In his 2005 book The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman joined a chorus of economists who touted India as the latest development success story, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. While India has developed a middle class with disposable income for the first time in recent history, such growth has not been accompanied by meaningful poverty reduction.Political Rally in Kerala
Let's just say that Comrade George Bush's $700 billion no-speculator-left-behind bailout of US financiers - perhaps the most significant wave of government takeovers of the economic commanding heights since Fidel Castro's moves in tiny Cuba back in the 1960s - undermines the credibility of neo-conservative insistence that all problems must be solved through unregulated markets.Farmers Protest WTO in Hong Kong
In this online video, retired CIA officer Ramond McGovern says Obama should negotiate a rational relationship with Russia.
A look at the compelling new documentary based on Naomi Wolf’s book of the same name.
The "End of America," a compelling new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern in collaboration with best-selling author Naomi Wolf received some love today in the New York Times:
The pointedly inflammatory film, adapted from Naomi Wolf’s book "The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," compares the Bush administration’s attempts to discourage dissent and to wield increasingly unchecked power to the events preceding the establishment of 20th-century dictatorships in Germany, Italy, Chile and elsewhere. Without explicitly invoking the word, it implies that since 2001 the United States has drifted toward fascism in the name of fighting terror.
The Facing a Mekong River Dam
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