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Speaking to TIME in Baghdad, Khateeb offers a number of grim statistics showing that Iraq is quickly becoming a disaster zone comparable to places like Somalia. Violence in recent years has left roughly 3 million women widows and created about 5 million orphans, she said. Unemployment for much of the...
That said, prepare to be riveted: No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson's first film, is without question the most important movie you are likely to see this year. It is not a film that simply massages your pre-existing attitudes about the war in Iraq. Rather it is a...
No End in Sight does not directly answer the central question raised by the Iraq disaster: How did an obviously difficult undertaking so quickly deteriorate into an impossible one? But maybe it doesn't have to. In general, ideology makes imbeciles of everyone caught in its grip. Safe in their...
This measured, strategic-stake approach may help Chinese firms avoid the disaster that befell many Japanese companies when they went on their own foreign spending spree in the late 1980s. The Japanese not only met considerable public opposition in the U.S., but in several instances, vastly overpaid for glamorous properties...
DEFINITION nak-ba n: an Arabic word meaning disaster or catastrophe that Palestinians use as shorthand to refer to the time just before and after the creation of the state of Israel, in which approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced.