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...administration’s trade policy has placed a premium on the protection of intellectual property rights across the globe, at the expense of the world’s poorest. In its negotiations of bilateral and regional trade agreements, and most prominently through its influence in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the administration has relentlessly pressured developing nations to adopt stricter patent regimes. It has done so at the direct behest of the pharmaceutical lobby, which spends millions of dollars in political donations and lobbying expenses every year...
...State of the Union Address provided false hope that the administration had come around to the position that global health activists have been advocating for years—that pharmaceutical companies should not be permitted to profiteer while millions die in the poorest parts of the world. At the end of August, the U.S. orchestrated a WTO resolution which was trumpeted as a means to ensure the health of developing countries, while protecting pharmaceutical industry profits. But the new resolution effectively penalizes those nations that lack the capacity to manufacture their own generic drugs—invariably, those that...
That very moderation, however, made him suspect in the eyes of the larger, more radical Shi'ite organization, the Sadr Group, led by Muqtada al-Sadr, 29. Cooperation with the coalition is anathema to al-Sadr, whose power base lies among the poorest Shi'ite communities, especially in Sadr City. Descended from a line of venerated ayatullahs, two of whom were executed by Saddam's regime, al-Sadr has the one thing the Hakim brothers lacked: street cred. He speaks in the rough argot of the slums, and his sermons, usually given after Friday prayers, are delivered in a take...
...lose control of everything. Iraq is not the only evidence of the U.S.'s flawed foreign policy. Think of Afghanistan. Has anything improved there since troops landed almost two years ago? No. Corruption is still proliferating, the Taliban is lining up again and the country is still among the poorest in the world. I'm sure we'll see the same results in Iraq. LUC DEFERONT Marseilles...
...lose control of everything. Iraq is not the only evidence of the U.S.'s flawed foreign policy. Think of Afghanistan. Has anything improved there since troops landed almost two years ago? No. Corruption is still proliferating, the Taliban are lining up again, and the country is still among the poorest in the world. I'm sure we'll see the same results in Iraq. Luc Def?ront Marseilles...