by Tula Connell, Jul 16, 2008 The nation’s talking heads still are debating whether the country is in a recession. Such noise is a distraction from the real issue: The short- and long-term decline in living standards experienced by the vast majority of us is real. (The long list of short-term trends includes word today […]
Trouble in Tajik Mountain Province
Remote region seething with discontent, which some fear could translate into political instability if the underlying causes are left unaddressed. By Lola Olimova in Dushanbe A standoff between locals in the remote province of Badakhshan and the Tajik government has been resolved for now at least, but it highlights growing levels of social discontent in […]
War criminals and punishment
I realise now that I didn’t have a hope. I had almost reached the stage when two of the biggest gorillas I have ever seen swept me up and carried me out of the tent. It was humiliating, but it could have been worse. The guard on the other side of the stage, half hidden […]
Metro North corridor ‘to create 37,000 jobs’
The proposed Metro North project will create an economic corridor that could double the level of economic activity in the region and create up to 37,000 new jobs in the next 20 years, according to a new economic report. Fingal County Council is hoping the new economic strategy for the region will boost the population […]
Cheers for Clinton, Obama; Boos for McCain at Building Trades Meeting
by Mike Hall The 3,000-plus union leaders and activists at the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) National Legislative Conference had plenty to cheer about when Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) pledged their support for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, workers’ freedom to join unions and other key […]
House Arrest: Judge’s Daughter Tells of Family’s Plight
Pakistan’s youngest political prisoner lives in a house on a hill just a few hundred meters from President Pervez Musharraf’s soaring presidential palace in Islamabad. Little about him is typical. He is physically disabled, spends his days watching cartoons on TV, and is eight years old. Bilaj Chaudhry is the son of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, […]