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...ambitious, it expands beyond the housing and banking crises of the past year into an epic of malfeasance: capital crimes on a national scale. With enough corporate villains to stock a hundred melodramas, who is the hero? The writer-director-star himself. There he is, attempting to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives and parking an armored truck in front of one bank to reclaim the billions it received in government largesse. Of course the film is one-?sided; that's the nature of a political tract. But Capitalism is filled with vigorous vignettes that support Moore...
Khazei, a longtime advocate for public service, said he will use the rally as a chance to lay out his vision of governance, which involves promoting citizen initiative, creating public-private partnerships, and increasing government efficiency...
...people, a number of them civilians. The region, however, was volatile and controlled by the Taliban. Despite police warnings, Farrell entered Kunduz without a military escort, armed with nothing more deadly than the language abilities of his translator. In the mission to save Farrell, a dual British-Irish citizen, four people were killed: a British commando in the NATO force, an Afghani man and woman—both civilians—and Farrell’s own translator, Sultan Munadi...
What worries Correa foes just as much are his new neighborhood defense committees, which they say are designed after Cuba's notorious committees for the defense of the revolution, or CDRs. Doris Soliz, Correa's Minister of Citizen Participation, denies that the Ecuadorian committees "are the CDRs of Cuba" and insists they won't "diverge from our democratic path" or promote "spying among Ecuadorians." But after his inauguration last month, Correa said he wanted to see one "in every home, in every neighborhood" to "be prepared for those who want to destabilize" his socialist revolution...
...animals? This is inhumane," a man yells from a bus that is packed so tightly with people that limbs, heads, and torsos are pressed against the dirty windows. "I'm a German citizen," he calls out. "I have two children with me. They are dying." To the non-Palestinians at Rafah Crossing, "Come and see how the Palestinians live" was a popular refrain through the long, hot wait. Everyone wanted his or her name and story recorded; passports and documents were thrust in the face of a foreign journalist. "Record this," people asked with desperation...