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Date Link Article
April 08, 2007 Dow Chemical to face $50 billion bid: report
Reuters
ONDON (Reuters) - A consortium of Middle Eastern investors and American buyout firms is preparing a $50 billion approach for Dow Chemical Co. (DOW.N: Quote, Profile , Research) in what could be the world's biggest ever leveraged buyout, a paper said on Sunday.
April 06, 2007 'Outrage' at World Bank Over Colleague's Generous Salary
Miscellaneous
The World Bank rank and file were most upset by our recent column noting that Shaha Riza, linked romantically with bank President Paul Wolfowitz, got some curiously hefty raises upon being detailed to work at the State Department -- but remaining on the bank's payroll.
April 04, 2007 Pope says rich nations "plundered" Third World
Reuters
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Rich countries bent on power and profit have mercilessly "plundered and sacked" Africa and other poor regions and exported to them the "cynicism of a world without God," Pope Benedict writes in his first book.
April 03, 2007 The Kissinger Presidency
Vanity Fair
Battered by Watergate in 1973, President Nixon was losing his epic power struggle with Henry Kissinger. Then the Middle East exploded. In an excerpt from his new book, using freshly opened archives, the author describes how the secretary of state took control.
April 03, 2007 Pet-food deaths spur ban on China’s wheat gluten
Miscellaneous
The U.S. is blocking imports of wheat gluten from a company in China, acting after an investigation implicated the contaminated ingredient in the recent pet-food deaths of cats and dogs.
April 02, 2007 United States and Korea Conclude Historic Trade Agreement
Miscellaneous
The United States and the Republic of Korea yesterday, April 1, successfully concluded a free trade agreement that will create economic opportunities for their people and enhance their economic and strategic partnership.
April 01, 2007 Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq
Int'l Herald Tribune
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.
March 31, 2007 Report: 'Free trade' enslaves poor nations
Worldnet Daily
So-called "free trade" agreements are not free at all, victimizing the poor while benefiting the wealthy, says a new report by Oxfam International, the coalition fighting poverty, suffering and social injustice around the world.
March 30, 2007 The mid-life crisis of the EU
Worldnet Daily
The 50th birthday of the European Union, born in Rome in March 1957 as the European Economic Community or Common Market – of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg – was a pallid affair.
March 29, 2007 'Enormous number' of trade barriers in China, U.S. official says
Int'l Herald Tribune
U.S. businesses are having a hard time operating in China because of significant trade barriers that remain in force despite efforts by Beijing to respect its World Trade Organization commitments, a U.S. trade official said Thursday.
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