The US government backtracks on the Freedom of Information Act.
Is the Freedom of Information Act the next target of the Bush administration in its neverending War on Terror? FOIA which has been with us since 1966 has suddenly become the focus of forces looking to clamp down on our personal freedoms [...]
Continue Reading July 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Predictably, the US spearheaded the effort that finally crippled the UN small arms conference.
A U.N. meeting meant to expand a five-year-old crackdown on the illicit global trade in small arms ended in chaos on Friday as delegates ran out of time without reaching agreement on a plan for future action.
“There was a total meltdown at [...]
Continue Reading July 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
New York Times
“INDIA is a roaring capitalist success story.” So says the latest issue of Foreign Affairs; and last week many leading business executives and politicians in India celebrated as Lakshmi Mittal, the fifth richest man in the world, finally succeeded in his hostile takeover of the Luxembourgian steel company Arcelor. India’s leading business newspaper, [...]
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