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...military and the economic architects of the war. But I still wasn't sure that this was something that went beyond Iraq. When I first used the phrase "disaster capitalism" it was because I had found out that something very similar was happening in Sri Lanka after the Asian tsunami where just days after the tsunami hit the government started pushing a very unpopular privatization agenda of water privatization and electricity privatization, which had actually been rejected by voters in an election eight months before the tsunami...
...menu. Consumption has risen 31% in the past five years alone, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "The beef market is exploding," says Western Cattle president Jim Mueller. He's not exaggerating. Owing to soaring demand, China could face beef shortages as early as next year, says the Asian Agribusiness Research Center, a situation exacerbated by a dramatic decline in pork production brought on by an outbreak of blue-ear disease earlier this year. And for now, Mueller doesn't have to worry about competition from back home. Imports of beef from America - a top global supplier - have been...
There may be a high environmental price to pay as poor nations convert from two wheels to four. John Rogers, a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, estimates that the number of cars in India will increase from 6.2 million in 2005 to 41.6 million by 2025. Putting millions of new vehicles on roads will increase pollution and further strain overtaxed transportation networks. "We cannot afford this type of congestion," says Anumita Roychowdhury, associate director of the New Delhi-based nongovernmental group Center for Science and Environment. "It's defeating the reason people buy cars: for mobility." Roychowdhury and other...
...largest obstacles confronting Asian America today is that, though Asians express a large amount of solidarity in soliciting and donating to other Asian political candidates, these alliances are often fragmented along ethnic lines, according to Adams and Ren. The implication is that if Asian America is to move forward in the political landscape, the demographic needs above all else a sense of pan-ethnic unity within its political community. A more unified approach to campaigning and to selecting candidates would permit a more coherent platform from which spokesmen can articulate and advocate for the most important of shared interests. Only...
...serious epidemic had flooded Harvard, or there was something else behind the 144 shirts emblazoned with the words “HIV Positive”. “The shirts originated in South Africa,” explained Tanuj D. Parikh ’09, chair of the South Asian Men’s Collective. “We wanted to bring them here because it addressed the stigma toward HIV victims, and after more than two decades, people are still afraid to talk about it.” Seven campus organizations, including the South Asian Men?...