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...weeks ago yesterday, in Cancun, Mexico, a South Korean farmer turned protester named Lee Kyoung-Hae plunged a knife into his own heart and died shortly thereafter. Welcome to the fifth ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO), where Lee’s death provided a potent symbol of the deadly contradictions which plague our global economic order. Lee had come to Cancun to protest a trade regime which had subjected him and other small South Korean farmers to debilitating competition from rich-nation exports. Unable to compete, many of Lee’s fellow farmers lost their land...
...where he lived a life of luxury in exile with one of several wives and 22 of his children. During an eight-year reign that plunged a prosperous nation into desperate poverty, the onetime military boxing champ used slaughter as a form of statecraft. The son of a peasant farmer and a mother who practiced sorcery, the nearly illiterate Amin joined the British colonial army in 1946. Nine years after Uganda achieved independence in 1962, he led a successful coup, then embarked on murderous campaigns against political opponents and rival ethnic groups that left as many as 500,000 dead...
...case would please Washington, with which Ankara is eager to patch up relations after the Iraq war. Failure, however, could see the Uzans emerge politically stronger than ever. The Uzan business empire is built on humble foundations. The patriarch of the Uzan clan, Kemal, the son of a Bosnian farmer who emigrated to Turkey in the 1920s, built a construction empire in the 1970s and '80s, benefiting from close ties with then Prime Minister Turgut Özal, who in effect brought capitalism to the country. Cem Uzan's initial enterprise was to launch Turkey's first private TV channel, Star...
Last week in Santa Monica, Calif., 86-year-old Russell Weller drove his car through a crowded farmer's market on a closed street, killing 10 people and injuring up to 45 (related story). In the aftermath of the incident, many questions have been raised about the safety record of older drivers and whether any additional requirements are needed to obtain a driver's license. How should states deal with the licensing of older drivers...
...industrial farms owned by large agricultural conglomerates. Shockingly, the largest 20 percent of European farms received over 80 percent of the subsidies while the remaining 78 percent received less than $5,500 a year. So even in Europe itself, these subsidies have hastened the demise of the small, individual farmer and decimated the countryside’s unique social fabric which the EU was purportedly trying so hard to preserve. In some countries, such as Spain, Italy and Greece, the subsidy policy has been so pernicious that the active rural population has decreased by 80 percent since the 1950s...