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Sounds ambitious, but the website is already extremely influential at home. After two schoolgirls were crushed to death in 2002 by a U.S. military vehicle, OhmyNews provided blanket coverage, triggering widespread demonstrations against the U.S. troop presence. As South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rode the surge of anti-U.S. sentiment to victory in the 2002 election, OhmyNews portrayed him as the voice of the younger generation. Roh gave his first exclusive interview as President to the online upstart...
...stuff that's fraught with discomfort. I buy some terrible things." Yet these terrible things produce terrific returns. Wadhwaney's $1.26 billion mutual fund has racked up annualized gains of 22.5% since its birth three-and-a-half years ago?double the rise of a comparable index of non-U.S. stocks. (I've entrusted his firm, Third Avenue Management, with some of my own money for nearly a decade, though I don't own any of the stocks mentioned in this column.) At times, his willingness to buy what everyone else regards as toxic can seem almost reckless...
...original story 30 years ago, when another American military engagement was in the news, and the leader's name was not Bush, but Nixon. The only competition film explicitly about U.S. foreign policy, Hiner Saleem's Kilometre Zero, presents Iraq's sorry history from an anti-Saddam, pro-U.S. viewpoint and ends in April 2003 with its Kurdish hero exulting as coalition soldiers march into Baghdad. (One critic called the film "insufficiently anti-American.") There was also a British documentary, Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, which traces the parallel inception and growth of Islamic fundamentalism and American neoconservatism...
...large corporate polluters in the oil and timber industries. Over time, though, green groups have realized that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector more than any other has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global-finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups--many of which belong to a loose collection of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs...
...makes one laugh, how ignorant U.S. soldiers are." MOHAMMED SHASIQ, Afghan student, on reports that American soldiers desecrated a copy of the Koran at the Guantánamo Bay naval base to intimidate Muslim prisoners. The reports have sparked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Afghanistan and other Islamic countries...