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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 16, 2015
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Drone Pilots, Press Freedom, and CIA Accountability
Daily Press Briefing, U.S. Department of State, January 15, 2015. MARIE HARF: So clearly, we think that media organizations should have the right publish what they want. Doesn’t mean they have to pr…
July 6, 2007
Emerging Markets
One more reason China and Russia are not quite as welcoming to foreign direct investment these days…
They don't need the money.Deborah Solomon's interesting A1 Wall Street Journal story about the US Treasury's concerns that the world may not be quite as open to US direct investment as it used to be …
October 18, 2007
United States
SIV-City
The Wall Street Journal says it is London. The Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism cries foul: the real SIV-City is Citi. Yves Smith has a point. The Journal’s reporting makes it clear that Citi – an…
July 2, 2015
Corporate Governance
Trade in Services: WikiLeaks and the Need for Public Debate
WikiLeaks has done it yet again, releasing in an extraordinarily timely fashion many of the latest negotiating texts from the Trade in International Services Agreement (TISA), just in advance of a me…
February 19, 2019
Election 2020
Meet Marianne Williamson, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Update: Marianne Williamson announced on January 10, 2020, that she was ending her campaign. Marianne Williamson doesn’t have the traditional background of a presidential candidate. She has never …
