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12 Million Shadows: American Immigration Dilemma

Joseph Chamie
February 4, 2008

Bush Administration Launches Latin Outreach Program

September 28, 2004
As the 2004 US presidential elections draw near, the incumbent administration has begun targeting a relatively new constituency: immigrants from Latin America. A series of seminars held by the State Department will brief Central American community organizations on US policies regarding their...

社交媒体运动能使童工消失吗？

February 10, 2012
干预行为——通过各种军事行动、援助补贴以及贸易促进措施——成了冷战过后国际政治的一大特色。如今，公司干预也跃然榜上，成为减除贫困以及在贫困国家大兴发展与教育的手段之一。社交媒体的兴起，加之人们对全球供应链体系的关注，使得种种不公平的劳工待遇一一得到曝光，尤其是农业和矿业的童工现象。许多消费者不愿意购买经工人忍受巨大痛苦后生产出来的巧克力、T恤或是智能手机。行业团体，还有如苹果（Apple）、雀巢（Nestlé）这样的跨国企业正不断加强其对自身冗繁生产链的管控，防止生产过程中出现非人性的做法，避免惹上相关的调查或是社交媒体运动，引发利润的暴跌。历史在不断轮回，正义在世界蔓延，正如一个多世纪前，...

巴基斯坦争掌阿富汗战争残局

September 30, 2011
在美国放手阿富汗战争这件事上，巴基斯坦军事及情报机构的领导人们已经等得不耐烦，他们甚至鼓励塔利班向北约发动攻击。巴基斯坦的目的就是要阻止亲印度政府在阿富汗的形成，取而代之，设立一个傀儡伊斯兰政权。一向直言不讳的美国参谋长联席会议（US Joint Chiefs of Staff）主席，海军上将迈克•马伦（Admiral Mike Mullen）在美国参议院军事委员会（US Senate Armed Services Committee）听证会上毫不客气地指出，塔利班领导人及哈卡尼（Haqqani）网络“能在巴基斯坦境内发号施令而毫不受妨”。布鲁金斯学会（Brookings...

Is It Legal to Stop North Korea’s Nuclear Exports?

May 18, 2003
As the first round of negotiations with North Korea ended without positive results, the US is considering other strategies to deal with the nuclear crisis in Northeast Asia. The hawks in the Bush administration have come up with the "quarantine" solution, which will put North Korea in an...

US Had Doubts on North Korean Uranium Drive

March 2, 2007
In 2002, US officials used intelligence reports not only to expound the danger of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, but also build a case against North Korea. The US accused Pyongyang of seeking to enrich uranium for use in a nuclear bomb and North Korea expelled weapons inspectors. Nearly five...

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...

Look Who's Fair and Balanced

August 28, 2006
If modern journalists went back in time to cover the American Revolution during the late 1770s, many would call the fighters “terrorists” or “martyrs,” depending on which side they supported. That’s because many journalists simply accept the language provided by their government sources. Unlike the...
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