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Corruption in Eastern Europe: Communism Leaves a Long Hangover
Lack of government action has left former communist states in Eastern Europe struggling to shake off a culture of corruption, experts say. A report released by the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) said that levels of perceived corruption remain high in Europe's former communist countries.
11/4/04
- Inter Press Service
Central America: The High Cost of Corruption
Corruption is one of the main obstacles to development in Central America, according to experts commenting on the recent series of scandals involving top-ranking officials in the region.
10/27/04
- Inter Press Service
Rampant corruption in South Asia can retard MDG progress
South Asian countries may find it difficult to receive funds for development as Transparency International (TI) ranks the region low on Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which was released on October 20.
10/22/04
- OneWorld South Asia
On World Stage, Critics of US Grow Louder
Even in former citidels of pro-America sentiment in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, people are starting to chafe and complain. They are increasingly irritated by what many South Koreans facetiously refer to as the Pax Americana -- a world politically dominated by Washington, a world increasingly steeped in US moral values, and a world awash in American culture.
5/4/04
- Boston Globe
US media revisit own failures on Iraq conflict
While President George W. Bush takes heat from the media over the Iraq conflict, US journalists have started an introspection of their coverage of the administration's pre-war arguments for ousting Saddam Hussein.
5/2/04
- Agence France Presse
Behind the mask. The real face of corporate social responsibility (Report)
The image of multinational companies working hard to make the world a better place is often just that - an image, says a new report from Christian Aid. What's needed are new laws to make businesses responsible for protecting human rights and the environment wherever they work.
2/4/04
- Christian Aid
Report reveals the true face of corporate social responsibility
Christian Aid calls for laws to make multinational companies meet basic social and environmental standards in poor countries.
2/4/04
- Christian Aid
Global Overconsumption Unsustainable, Threatens People and Planet
Fatter and ever hungrier for the latest physical comforts and social-status symbols, the average U.S. citizen is leading the world in building a global consumer society that is wreaking havoc on the world's natural resources, according to the Worldwatch Institute's 'State of the World 2004' report.
1/9/04
- OneWorld US
State of the World 2004: Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
The world is consuming goods and services at an unsustainable pace, with serious consequences for the well-being of people and the planet, reports the Worldwatch Institute in its annual report, State of the World 2004.
1/9/04
- WorldWatch Institute
U.S.: Iraq Blotted Out Rest of the World in 2003 TV News
AIDS killed three million people around the world last year, more than two million of them in Africa. The three major U.S. television networks' evening news programs devoted a combined total of 39 minutes to the issue.
1/7/04
- OneWorld US
2003 Bad Year for Press Freedom
More journalists were killed in the line of duty in 2003 than in any other year in almost a decade, according to two major international press watchdogs, Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York.
1/6/04
- OneWorld US
Media bosses admit pro-war bias in coverage of Iraq
Two leading media bosses have admitted what has been increasingly evident throughout the month-long war in Iraq: the American broadcast media systematically distorted the news of the war and functioned as an electronic arm of the Pentagon and the Bush administration.
5/2/03
- World Socialist
U.S.: Critic Accuses Media of Aiding U.S. War Propaganda
It is one of the most famous images of the war in Iraq: a U.S. soldier scaling a statue of Saddam Hussein and draping the U.S. flag over the ousted despot. But for Harper's magazine publisher John MacArthur, that same image is also indicative of a propaganda campaign being waged by the Bush administration.
5/1/03
- Reuters
U.S.: Ted Turner Calls Rival Media Mogul Murdoch 'Warmonger'
Ted Turner said on Thursday too few people owned too many media organizations and called rival media baron Rupert Murdoch a warmonger for what he said was Murdoch's promotion of the U.S. war in Iraq.
4/25/03
- Reuters
BBC News Chief Attacks U.S. Media War Coverage
U.S. broadcasters' coverage of the Iraq war was so unquestioningly patriotic and so lacking in impartiality that it threatened the credibility of America's electronic media, the head of the BBC said on Thursday.
4/24/03
- Reuters
U.S.: Madonna Slams American Values
U.S. pop superstar Madonna. one of music's richest performers, has attacked her fellow Americans for being obsessed with the "wrong values" such as getting rich and looking good.
4/24/03
- Reuters
Arab world now faces invasion by American TV
Washington's battle to win public support in the Arab world has begun in earnest with the first broadcasts of what officials say will become a 24-hour satellite television network aimed at changing minds throughout the region.
4/23/03
- The Guardian (UK)
U.S.: Hollywood revives McCarthyist climate by silencing and sacking war critics
Entertainment personalities who speak out on touchy political subjects – particularly Iraq – do so at their peril.
4/21/03
- The Independent (UK)
US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures
As the full extent of the looting of Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad emerges, it becomes clear that there was nothing accidental about it. Rather it was the result of a long planned project to plunder the artistic and historical treasures that are held in the museums of Iraq.
4/18/03
- World Socialist Web Site
Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft
The head of a U.S. presidential panel on cultural property has resigned in protest at the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the wholesale looting of priceless treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum.
4/17/03
- Reuters
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