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Post Views: 6 I admire Joselph E. Stiglitz, because he has a social conscience and a sense of justice, the absence of which turns economists into monsters. Despite his virtues and Nobel Prize, Stiglitz sometimes falls down as an economist.
Read MoreFallujah: Anatomy of an Atrocity 0
Post Views: 4 Today July 6th of 2010 is the day that Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan Entesar Ariabi released their epidemiological study on the health problems the people of Fallujah are suffering from. The full study can be downloaded here,
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Post Views: 9 The Spot-and-Shoot Game Nazareth. It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill terrorists. Played by: young
Read MoreTurkey to stay out of Iran nuke controversial 0
Post Views: 2 The Associated Press reported that a senior U.S. official said Turkey has agreed to stay out of international efforts to pressure Iran on its nuclear program, Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
Read MoreDomesticar las finanzas en un momento de austeridad 0
Post Views: 3 NUEVA YORK – No fue hace tanto tiempo cuando podíamos decir: “Ahora somos todos keynesianos”. El sector financiero y su ideología de libre mercado habían llevado al mundo al borde de la ruina. Los mercados claramente no
Read MoreIllegal Workers Swept From Jobs in ‘Silent Raids’
Post Views: 7 By JULIA PRESTONBREWSTER, Wash. — The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers.While the sweeps of the past
Read MoreUS: Fix Dysfunctional Immigration System 0
Post Views: 4 Immigrant laborers from Mexico and Honduras work to rebuild a home damaged by Hurricane Katrina on April 27, 2006, in New Orleans. © 2006 Mario Tama/Getty Images New Legal Framework Needed for Reform Washington, DC) – Congress
Read MoreThe Great Marginalization. Life in the Low to Mid-Teens 0
Post Views: 13 Even on the streets of Harlem, where residents are all too aware of the very low priority to which they have been consigned, the news that 5,000 echocardiograms went unread registered palpable alarm. From an initial review
Read MoreLas políticas fiscales neoliberales 0
Post Views: 28 Ilustración de Mikel Jaso Una de las políticas fiscales que han caracterizado el pensamiento neoliberal reproducido en la mayoría de partidos gobernantes en la Unión Europea, tanto de derecha como de centro izquierda, ha sido la reducción
Read MoreEast Afghanistan Sees Taliban as ‘Morally Superior’ to Karzai 0
Post Views: 2 The looming security operations — er, “rising tide” — in southern Afghanistan are getting all the attention. But the American-led coalition may be in serious trouble in eastern Afghanistan as well. According to a just-departed U.S. commander
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