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Martha Gies Special to The Oregonian 11/18/07

Recent photos speak eloquently to the cost of dissent: in Yangon, police raid Buddhist monasteries, arresting monks who defied a ban on assembly; in Islamabad, police lob smoke canisters into crowds of lawyers protesting the suspension of the constitution. (more…)

Neoliberalism’s Price Tag: 150,000 Farm Suicides in India from 1997 Through 2005

By P. SAINATH Counterpunch 11/17/07

Close to 150,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in nine years from 1997 to 2005, official data show. While farm suicides have occurred in many Indian states, nearly two thirds of these deaths are concentrated in five states where just a third of the country’s population lives. (more…)

By Dan Eggen The Washington Post 11/17/07

A federal appeals panel in California ruled yesterday that an Islamic charity that is suing the government cannot refer to a classified document that shows it was a target of warrantless surveillance, even though the material was accidentally released by the Treasury Department. (more…)

By Seyoon Kim and Matthew Brown Bloomberg 11/15/07

The United Arab Emirates may link the dirham to a basket of currencies, ending its 30-year-old peg to the dollar, central bank Governor Sultan Bin Nasser al-Suwaidi said. (more…)

Moisha Blechman Sierra Atlantic Volume 34, Summer 2007

Look at the sky. If you see it on a clear and sunny day, especially behind vegetation, you will notice that the blue is particularly intense. This could be considered beautiful except for one thing: that blue is a result of a fundamental change in the chemistry of the atmosphere. (more…)

By Michel Shehadeh ICH 11/15/07

For the last 20 years, the U.S. government has accused me of being a terrorist. Along with six other Palestinians and a Kenyan, we were dubbed the “Los Angeles Eight” by the media. Our case even made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. (more…)

By Jo Johnson in New Delhi Financial Times 11/16/07

Supermodels are not the only ones worrying about the value of their dollar contracts. After years of urging foreign tourists to pay in dollars whenever possible, the Taj Mahal and other Indian heritage sites will now insist on a proper hard currency — the rupee. (more…)

Maher Chmaytelli and Fred Pals Bloomberg.com 11/16/07

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, rejected a proposal by Iran and Venezuela to discuss the weak dollar at this weekend’s OPEC summit in Riyadh, saying it didn’t want the U.S. currency to “collapse.” (more…)