The recent news that once again the Bush administration plans to announce a $1 billion package of aid to help rebuild another country, this time, Georgia after its rout by Russian forces last month, is yet again a demonstration that the Bush administration is clueless about the use of economic power in foreign affairs....
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Posts Tagged ‘ Oil ’
The hunt for oil: Another wasteful $1 Billion foreign aid
Contradictions and Crisis of Failed States
The International Relations community has focused its attention in recent times on the growing cost of food and its impact on developing nations and the devastating effect the rising cost of food will have on the world’s poor which is currently estimated to be over one billion people. On top of this, most poor...
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Equatorial Guinea: Another African Disgrace
While the world is in a tizzy about Zimbabwe, another dictator is being feted by the U.S. government. The world is having its way at the moment at who can hurl the best insults at Robert Mugabe. Meanwhile, in Equatorial Guinea, another genocidal regime is quietly brutalizing its people, removed from the sensational journalism...
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And so, here they come
It’s been over five years since the war in Iraq flared up and try as it may, the Bush administration has not been able to convince us and the rest of the world that its intentions were totally about exporting democracy. A major argument of most had been that we went into Iraq in...
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