Month: June 2006

China’s $13B Trade Surplus

I read this article in the NY Times just now on China’s $13B trade surplus… for the month of May. I’m frightened to even look up what the US trade deficit was for May 2006. I’m sure it was quite ugly....

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War-Making 101: Show You Mean Business

…I can hardly improve on Harold Pinter’s eloquence so I’ll just add to it by calling the Bush-Cheney administration an unchallengeable practioner of reckless and outrageous policies at home and abroad and being...

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Women in Prison

Since 1997, the number of women in prison has increased by a whopping 757 percent. Women are the fastest growing segment of the prison system, surpassing men in all 50 states. Over the past 15 years, the number of women...

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Spinning Wars versus Winning Wars

Regarding the recent suicides at Guantanamo, camp commander Rear Admiral Harry Harris said, “I believe this was not an act of desperation, rather an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us.” Hey, maybe Admiral...

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