Alissa Thuotte, Dollars and Sense. June 26, 2008. Remittances decrease poverty in developing countries, but also makes them vulnerable to shifting political and economic winds abroad.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 1, 2008. If our government and large food and energy interests don't change direction, the food riots in distant lands will soon be coming to their doors.
Brian Beutler, Media Consortium. September 13, 2007. Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker had tough marching orders this week: Spin the political and economic chaos of Iraq into something that sounds like progress -- but his numbers don't stand up to scrutiny.
Jason Vest, SpeakOut.com. April 1, 2000. With the constant buzz of police helicopters overhead, the alternating scents of irritant gas, pepper spray and vinegar, police barricades at intersection after intersection and throngs of protesters expressing themselves in every which way, downtown D.C. was quite a scene on Sunday, April 16. Jason Vest happened to be in all the right places at all the right times and filed this report on the major clashes of the day.
