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...supermarket in Baghdad, Samir Abdul Karim says, "American troops should stay in Iraq for the time being because the country can't function on its own right now. If they leave; Iraq will fall into chaos and that would be no good for the American reputation." He didn't really prefer one candidate over the other, an opinion shared even by members of parliament. Says Alia Nasayif Jasim of the secular Iraqi National Accord bloc: "As Iraqis, from what we've seen of the bitterness in the American relationship with the Middle East, we don't think it matters...
...less ominous example, consider the fact that mainstream economics has no answers for the displaced rural masses coalescing on the outskirts of monstrous megacities across the global south. As per capitalist logic, their inability to compete with large-scale commercial enterprises has demanded their demise. Yet, according to Samir Amin’s calculations, “in 50 years’ time, industrial development, even in the fanciful hypothesis of a continued growth rate of seven percent annually, could not absorb even one-third of this reserve...
...paid on average $1.38 a day in northern India and $2.25 in the south, and because the estates are so remote, workers must rely on tea companies for basic services. "The only long-term, sustainable solution is for estates to give workers a stake in the earnings," says Samir Roy, head of the Defense Committee for Plantation Workers Rights...
...Mayor's actions are not helping but hurting the situation. The system is completely hemorrhaged, backed up, since there is not enough housing on the other end," said Samir Goswami, an associate policy analyst with the homeless coalition. "We are not going to end homelessness in Chicago by 2012 simply because our well-intentioned Mayor signed a well-intentioned plan...
...disturbing number of women captured and interrogated by Israel recount stories similar to that of Riyashi, of feeling compelled to carry out an attack to restore her family's honor. In one notorious case, Wafa Samir al-Biss, a 22-year-old burn victim from Gaza, went routinely to an Israeli hospital where she received free medical treatment as a humanitarian gesture. Militants convinced her and her family that since she was disfigured she would never get married and that she was better off becoming a martyr. A surveillance camera at Erez checkpoint captured al-Biss's anguish and desperation...