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...Supported by organized labor, Braley has campaigned on raising the minimum wage, fair trade issues, opposing Republican efforts to privatize Social Security and reforming the Medicare prescription drug program. Whalen has emphasized reducing wasteful government spending and government intrusion that hampers free enterprise. He also supports private sector solutions, a modified flat tax system to help small businesses and stimulate economic growth, "consumer-driven" health care reform, tort reform and permanent extension of federal income tax cuts...
...temptations of oil money make political reform all the more imperative. There are some promising signs. The 2005 U.N. Development Program Fact Sheet praised Kazakhstan as "thus far the only country in the region that has begun a civil-service reform program." In Astana, Kuat Akizhanov, 30, head of the social-economic analysis department of the all-powerful presidential staff, holds a law degree from the University of Virginia, which he obtained under Kazakhstan's state-paid training program. He says his young Western-educated counterparts now constitute a tight network in major state institutions and private companies. "Even...
...opposition leaders, who are all former allies and top officials of Nazarbayev, have not fared well. Former Energy Minister Mukhtar Ablyazov was jailed in 2002 for embezzlement and misuse of state funds. A year earlier former Prime Minister Akezhan Kazhegeldin, who played a crucial role in liberal economic reform, was forced into exile and tried in absentia for financial abuses, was sentenced to 10 years and had his property confiscated. Last November, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, a former regional Governor and Emergencies Minister who had become a strong critic of Nazarbayev and opposition leader, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds...
...role in the Iranian nuclear project and his “distorted and dangerous international views.” No doubt they were simultaneously writing to Musharraf and Israel about their nuclear weapons.To be fair, the group did make mention of Khatami’s attempts at reform, rightfully highlighting how these efforts were often undermined by the unelected Guardian Council. But throughout the week of Khatami’s visit, all too many people and organizations demonstrated a blind acceptance of the Bush administration’s media barrage, which unrelentingly accuses Iran as the embodiment of pure evil...
...military returns power to a civilian government by next week—following a coup there last Tuesday—undergraduates from Thailand and student organizations planning trips there are tracking the ongoing political developments. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the leader of a new party calling itself the Democratic Reform Council, last week overthrew Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party. Thaksin, who at the time was in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, declared a state of emergency and has not yet returned to Thailand. Thailand is currently under...