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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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October 5, 2006
Economics
A world turned upside down …
I guess it is only natural that in world where capital flows – in unprecedented sums – from the poor to the rich, that the poor countries on the periphery also have lower inflation rates than the US…
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…
May 25, 2011
Libya: NATO’s Report Card
Under the War Powers Resolution, authorization for U.S. military operations in Libya expired last Friday, the sixtieth day of “kinetic military action.” The Obama administration did not pay this lega…
August 2, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa
Somalia Famine Finally Captures the News Cycle
Eastern Africa: Drought-Humanitarian Snapshot, 29 July 2011 (Courtesy of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs). A full pdf is available here: http://reliefweb.int/node/438043. Tod…
March 2, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Syria Besieges, Egypt Relents, and Iran War-Talk
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. Developments shifted back this week to the intense fighting in Syria, especially the siege of Homs. On Thursday, Syrian rebels announced their retreat fro…
