Lending policies pushed by the World Bank and IMF transformed a self-sufficient, food-producing Africa into a continent vulnerable to food emergencies and famine.
A woman attacked by her employer's very powerful customer was perhaps empowered to come forward knowing her union contract meant she wouldn't lose her job for it.
The struggle against violent domination is not a struggle against one demented or corrupt individual, but the authority represented by that individual.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was yanked off an Air France flight on Saturday just minutes before take-off in a humiliating turn of events for one of the world's most powerful men.
Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus. November 11, 2010.
He reined in the IMF with the spectre of many other countries also walking away from their debts. By 2005, Argentina was able to kick the IMF out of the country entirely.
In the midst of a colossal human disaster, Washington is promoting unpopular economic policies and extending military and economic control over the Haitian people.
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.
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.
