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...Thai army base there, ordered more troops to the region, and abandoned a program that emphasized cooperation between the military, the police and community leaders. Instead, Thaksin gave sole responsibility for public security to the police, who are reviled by the Muslims because they consider the cops corrupt and insensitive to Islamic customs. Widespread arrests and mysterious disappearances soon followed. One notorious case was the recent and still unsolved disappearance of Somchai Neelahphaijit, a Muslim lawyer who was defending four men accused of membership in JI. Four policemen have been detained as suspects in his disappearance, but no charges have...
...documentary simultaneously traces the life of Dominique, an agronomist turned radio journalist, and the transformation of Haiti from brutal dictatorship to equally brutal military rule to corrupt oligarchy with democratic overtones. The film is helped out by Dominique’s eccentric character—gleeful, charismatic and contrarian, which singled him out for persecution at the hands of one or another strongman’s private militia. This oppression of Dominique, his followers and poor Haitians in general is ultimately the theme that ties the film’s large historical bookends. Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage...
...needed context and a new perspective to an American public intrigued by the recent political events of Haiti. Demme’s documentary provides a realistic picture of Aristide—who entered the political scene from Catholic priesthood amidst high expectations and who became entangled in the same corruption and tendencies toward despotism that had been the hallmark of previous governments. And through its effective use of interviews with a deceased subject and his relatives, a clear line is drawn between Dominique, the perennial advocate for the poor masses, and the uniformly brutal and corrupt governments that have plagued...
...Building 41 none of that seemed to matter right now. Google's news was received with cheers and laughter. For the rest of the country, it seemed to reinforce our love-hate relationship with corporate America: One moment we are cogs in the system-ruined by Enron marauders and corrupt bankers; the next, we all have a chance of hitting it big and finding a supercharged Googleified rocket ship. As I drove out of the parking lot and cruised up 101 North toward San Francisco, the sun was shining brightly, the fog had lifted...
Development schemes for Third World countries rarely benefit the poor, largely because aid is too often squandered by corrupt bureaucracies. That makes fresher, commonsense visions like those of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto all the more welcome. De Soto has spent years looking deep inside the underground economies where poor people--who make up two-thirds of the world's population--eke out a living. He figures the value of their extralegal property, from cinder-block squatter homes to black-market street-vendor sales, at almost $10 billion. De Soto insists that bringing the poor and their assets into...