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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with World Bank

World Bank and Power "Fatally-Dangerous Schizophrenia"
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: World Bank, oil, energy, global warming, conflicts )


- 666 days ago - brettonwoodsproject.org
The organisation calls for an end to oil aid on the basis of its contribution to climate change, the debt of oil-importing countries, civil conflict, human rights abuses, and ecosystem destruction.
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Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," Iraq, Greeting the Shah of Iran at the White House, Selling Wea
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Carter, World Bank, Harvard, weapons, diseases, world issues, Carter Center, cash crops, indonesia, East Timor, regrets )

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- 690 days ago - democracynow.org
VIDEO: Carter also discusses his regrets over sending arms to Indonesia during the occupation of East Timor and recounts his dealings with the Shah of Iran. The 39th president also assesses the Iraq war and reflects on the 25th anniversary
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YouTube - ArtofMentalWarfare.Com: The Warning   video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: global warming, IMF, WTO, World Bank )


- 700 days ago - youtube.com
Warning: Not for kids. Some sexist video meant as a putdown of the mainstream media through examples of what it shows at the beginning, and some graphic and disturbing shots later on, but the message here is RIGHT ON and so is the music. Turn it up!
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Malawi Wins Results and Recognition for Rebuffing World Bank Prescriptions
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: foreign policy, World Bank, IMF, Africa, Malawi )


- 706 days ago - community.livejournal.com
Malawi went from food aid recipient to regional food provider in just two years after re-introducing fertilizer subsidies for its low-income farmers. The move contravened years of policy guidance from the World Bank and IMF, which warn against such distor
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Burundi: Hospital Officials Detain Hundreds of Insolvent Patients (Human Rights Watch, 7-9-2006)
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: human rights, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, foreign policy, Africa, Burundi )


- 708 days ago - hrw.org
"Detaining poor patients because they can't pay a bill punishes the poor and violates international human rights law," said Juliane Kippenberg, NGO Liaison of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch. "It's an abuse that the Burundian authorities must en
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South America Set to Launch New Bank Today to Rival IMF
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: IMF, World Bank, resistance, alternatives )


- 724 days ago - thedailystar.net
Several of the governments that joined the project do not share the ideology of the leftist Venezuelan president. What they do have in common is the rejection of what they consider the negative influence by the International Monetary Fund and the World Ba
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