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Confusion Over Where Money Lent on Kiva Goes - NYTimes.comConfusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes Last month, David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, pressed a button on his laptop as his bus left the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and started a debate that has people re-examining the country’s latest celebrated charity, ...
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Mumbai attacks ‘were a ploy to wreck Obama plan to isolate al-Qaeda’Relations between India and Pakistan were on a knife edge last night amid fears that Delhi’s response to the Mumbai attacks could undermine the Pakistani army’s campaign against Islamic militants on the frontier with Afghanistan.
Iain Macadair
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We Didn't Start The Fire"We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and ...
Iain Macadair
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US Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers' "Suicides"?Army Reserve Col. Ann Wright, retired, is a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a U.S. diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in ...
Iain Macadair
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Torturing DemocracyWhen the publication of the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq made prisoner abuse an international controversy in April, 2004, both the National Security Archive and Washington Media Associates were already pursuing the story. Award-winning producer Sherry Jones was in the final stages ...
Iain Macadair
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Mystery Flights"If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt." - Former CIA agent Robert Baer The CIA calls it "extraordinary rendition". It's ...
Iain Macadair
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The Politics of War"When MIT Scholar Charles Ferguson was asked why he decided that his first film should be about Iraq, he said he was taught to choose important questions, and think about them hard. Questions like how, in practice and policy, could this have happened in Iraq? In this Link TV presentation, we ...
Iain Macadair
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