Exclusive: A top problem of Ukraine has been corruption and cronyism, so it may raise eyebrows that new Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, an ex-U.S. diplomat and newly minted Ukrainian citizen, was involved in insider dealings while managing a $150 million U.S. AID-backed investment fund, writes Robert Parry. (more…)
December 2014
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Mon 8 Dec 2014
Ukraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister
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Sun 7 Dec 2014
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers? (more…)
Thu 4 Dec 2014
A handful of farmers and crop scientists are struggling to save the fast diminishing stock of agricultural diversity for the rest of us. (more…)