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...Naxalites and Nepal's Maoists-the Philippine rebels have survived because they are primarily fueled not by foreign ideology but by domestic realities: poverty, corruption, unemployment. Some 40% of Filipinos live on less than $2 a day, while a tenth of the 87 million population seeks work abroad. Corruption watchdog Transparency International ranks the Philippines near the bottom of its corruption index, alongside Nepal and Rwanda. The N.P.A. promotes communism as the only cure for the Philippines' many ills, but even Filipinos who reject its cause still share its grievances...
...control, along the lines of the two oil giants that border Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran. "What we are looking at is Iraq signing deals for next 20 years at a time when it is extremely weak and not fully sovereign," says Greg Muttitt, co-director of Platform, a watchdog organization in London that monitors the oil and gas industries. "The U.S. has put a lot of effort into this." But it's not certain that U.S. or British majors like ExxonMobil or BP will be the first big benefactors. Both China and India signed exploration deals with Saddam before...
However, there is a more effective way to ensure this happens than to rely on The Crimson to be Harvard’s moral and financial watchdog. Students from the Harvard Darfur Action Group are currently working with the nationwide Sudan Divestment Taskforce to propose a targeted divestment model, like the one recently adopted by the state of California and taken up by other universities, including the University of California. If implemented, the targeted model would secure Harvard’s good reputation on this issue once...
...going to ban travel on corporate jets-something that goes farther than what the Democrats had promised during the midterm election campaign-it signaled that they might actually be willing to give up the day-to-day lifestyle perks that have created what Fred Wertheimer, head of the watchdog group Democracy 21, calls a "culture of entitlement." Congressmen have always envied the corporate life, and never tire of telling you how much more money they would be making if they hadn't selflessly decided to run for office. In recent years, as commercial airline travel has become an ordeal, nothing...
...congressional watchdog agency's 48-page study came up with disturbing numbers. From 1993-2004, spending by U.S. drug companies on research and development jumped 147%, from $16 billion to nearly $40 billion annually. But the number of applications the pharmaceutical firms submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for potentially groundbreaking new drugs during that 10-year period increased only a meager 7%. And since 1995, the applications for these innovative drugs have been dropping each year. "The productivity of research and development investments has declined," the GAO concluded...