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Leading Iraqi Scientist Says He Lied to U.N. Inspectors

April 27, 2003
Since the earliest days of fighting, the US-led coalition in Iraq has been searching for the scientists, documents and biological and chemical toxins that would validate Washington’s charges that Iraq had developed a sophisticated program for creating weapons of mass destruction. While there have...

Union Disrupts Plan to Send Ailing Workers to India for Cheaper Medical Care

October 12, 2006
It is no secret to American companies that prohibitive costs of providing healthcare to their employees eat into their profit margin: the consulting firm McKinsey and Company estimates that by 2008, top U.S. companies will be spending as much on health care as they made in profits, forcing the...

U.S. May Cut Aid Over Court Immunity

July 1, 2003
Washington has threatened to cut off military aid, including military equipment and training programs, to countries that refuse to grant US citizens immunity from prosecution in the newly formed International Criminal Court. The Bush administration is demanding a written promise, known as an...

痛苦的欧元危机和给世界的教训——下篇

November 18, 2011
富裕国家领导人一边过度花费，带给国民一种虚假繁荣的印象，一边期待未来的经济发展能够解决所有的收支不平衡。耶鲁全球本系列文章分析了正在发生的欧洲债务危机可给全球其他国家提供怎样的经验教训。研究员约根•欧斯鸠姆•莫勒（Joergen Oerstroem Moeller）在下篇文章中解释说，一个相对较小的银行和投资者群体控制着相当多的全球收入，债权人自然希望保护并且进一步提高他们在主权债券上的投资收益。债权人或将支持欧洲解决债务危机的策略——实施紧缩政策，同时提高税收。这样的策略将减少未来借贷、降低通货膨胀、最大程度上减少诸多新兴经济体债权人控制国家和全球政策的企图。...

North Korea Says It Seeks to Develop Nuclear Arms

June 10, 2003
North Korea is a step closer to its goal of becoming a nuclear state, as it announced for the first time that it would develop nuclear weapons. This is at a time when the U.S. has organized some of its Pacific allies to track and inspect North Korean ships for weapons, drugs, and other illegal...

Libya Exposes Fault Lines in the Mediterranean – Part I

François Godement
March 25, 2011

South Like North? North Like South? The Great Korean Flap

September 9, 2004
This Khaleej Times opinion piece examines the significance of the recent revelation that a group of South Korean scientists experimented with nuclear materials. Despite North Korean claims to the contrary, the experiment – amounting essentially to a few researchers tinkering in a lab – was not...

Paulson Financial Regulation Reform Plan Already Faces Discounting

April 4, 2008
The mortgage-backed securities crisis has resulted in turmoil in the global markets, but politics could get in the way of any quick fixes of the US financial system, reports Thomson Financial News. Three short-term recommendations in the proposal from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson include...
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