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U.S. officials there hope that Afghanistan improves to the point where it's only as bad as Colombia, says this NYT story. While the Latin American nation remains the world’s cocaine capital and is still plagued by drug-related violence, American officials argue that decades of American counternarcotics efforts there have at least helped stabilize the country. [...]
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The post above says Afghanistan should aspire to Colombia in terms of drug control efforts. Well, all is not well in the Latin American cocaine capital. Some excerpts from the NYT story: President Álvaro Uribe, the Bush administration’s closest ally in Latin America, faces an intensifying scandal after a jailed former commander of paramilitary death squads [...]
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From the May 13 San Francisco Chronicle story (via truthout): Here's a silver lining in last month's avalanche of news coverage of Don Imus: The disc jockey's racist and sexist remarks inspired at least one Sunday morning talk show to invite women and people of color to discuss Imus' comments. Seeing nonwhite men on the Sunday shows [...]
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Sorry, missed this one. Democracy Now! talked to Davide Simonetti of Blairwatch over the sentencing of former civil servant David Keogh and former parliamentary researcher Leo O’Connor for leaking a memo stating that U.S. President George Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2004 that he wanted to bomb the Doha, Qatar headquarters [...]
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