World-News

Enter a term to search in World-News:

Die Suche nach »US poor« hat 638 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 341 bis 350.



Double Decoupling
"I'm spending my spare time these days debating supply-siders who are convinced that the record-breaking Dow proves the correctness of the Bush tax cuts. Yes, the Dow did reach a record high last week.... ...
Corruption, Shoddy Work and Mismanagement Cripple Iraq Reconstruction
William Fisher reports, "Evidence of widespread corruption, shoddy work and poor management has called into question the Bush administration's claims that sabotage by insurgents is responsible for the... ...
Urge Congress to help bring clean drinking water to the world's neediest children
http://www.nrdconline.org/ campaign/nrdcaction_050207 _b More than one billion people around the world are without access to safe drinking water, and 2.6 billion are without basic sanitation. Each day 5,000... ...
The First Refugees of Global Warming
Bangladesh, which has 140 million people packed into an area a little smaller than Illinois, is one of the most vulnerable places as climate changes. As the sea level slowly rises, this nation, which is... ...
The U.S.' War on Democracy
Interview with John Pilger The United States has long waged a war on democracy behind a facade of propaganda designed to contort the intellect and morality of Americans and the rest of us. For many of... ...
Fighting Poverty: The First Step Is Counting It
Dean Baker writes: "The Center for American Progress issued a useful report last week on ways to reduce and eventually eliminate poverty. The report proposed a national goal of cutting the number of people... ...
Stealing from the Poor and Giving to the Rich
By Ramzy Baroud The plundering of Iraq's wealth, first by the UN and now by Iraq's new Green Zone czars, is the biggest, most shameful financial-political scandal of our times. http://www.informa tionclearinghouse.info/art icle17610.htm https://fr eepage.twoday.net/search?q =Ramzy+Baroud ...
Katrina contracts blantantly illegal
Wichita Falls Times Record News 04/23/07 FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste — and possibly violated federal law — by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with... ...
Specter: Gonzales hurt administration
Miami Herald 04/22/07 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hurt the Bush administration and the Justice Department with his poor handling of the firing of eight federal prosecutors, a leading Republican... ...
Plan B : Budget For Saving Civilization
By Lester R. Brown "The tragic irony of this moment is that the rich countries are so rich and the poor so poor that a few added tenths of one percent of GNP from the rich ones ramped up over the coming... ...