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Giant oil spills have turned the Amazon in Ecuador into a disaster zone long before the Gulf
BP’s calamitous behavior in the Gulf of Mexico is the big oil story of the moment. But for many years, indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what h...
Has the US rice export policy condemned Haiti to poverty?
(April 23, 2010) Did President Clinton and other recent White House tenants condemn Haiti to a future of endemic poverty through a self-serving U.S. rice export policy? An examination of Haiti’s economic liberalization strategies of the 1980s and 1990s indicates that the answer in part is “yes....
The worst of the pain of the economic crisis is felt by low income households–the lowest income group had unemployment of 30 percent while the h...
Bob Herbert is no longer writing his column for The New York Times. Bob Herbert joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in June 1993. He writes about politics, urban affairs and social trends in a twice-weekly column....
Equatorial Guinea: Its per capita income is equal to Italy, while two-thirds of its population live in extreme poverty and its infant and child mortal...
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The other plot to destroy America: Wall Street has (arguably) caused more devastation than Al Qaeda, yet what are we doing to prevent a recurrence of ...
THERE may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we’ve all become counterterrorists....
How has the world allowed hunger to grow, rather than reducing hunger by half, the world’s solemn international commitment in 1996?
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in its 1999 report “The state of food insecurity in the world” (FAO 1999) assured us that we had the tools to achieve the World Food Summit target of h...
The art of doing nothing: agricultural policy making in Cuba
(December 3, 2009) The 26 of July 2007 speech by Raúl Castro, the then newly incoming Cuban President, was a breakthrough in the history of public pronouncements by Cuban revolutionary leaders. Probably for the first time, the country’s president acknowledged that the economic system was tied up ...
Rethinking food production for a world of eight billion
Lester Brown is founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute. This article was adapted from Chapter 9, “Feeding Eight Billion Well,” in Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), available for free downloading and purc...
Isaias Afewerki and Eritrea: a nation’s tragedy
(July 11, 2009) It is rare that a country's entire condition can be summarized in a single word. That is true of Eritrea today, however, and the word is tragic. There are many indices of this tragedy, among them Eritrea's appalling record in hunger, poverty, human rights and freedom of the press. Bu...
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