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Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia

New York Times
07/13/2007

By Kyle Whitmire

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 12 — Six years ago, three union leaders were kidnapped and slain in northern Colombia. Now, 2,000 miles away, a federal jury here is being asked to decide whether an Alabama-based coal company, Drummond Ltd., aided in the killings and took sides in Colombia’s decades-old civil war.

The civil case promises to test a new use of a 218-year-old law and to open a window into corporate endeavors in a developing country where factional violence has often supplanted the rule of law.

China Not Sole Source of Dubious Food

New York Times
07/12/2007

By Andrew Martin and Griff Palmer

Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too filthy to eat. Candy from Denmark that is mislabeled.

At a time when Chinese imports are under fire for being contaminated or defective, federal records suggest that China is not the only country that has problems with its exports.

In fact, federal inspectors have stopped more food shipments from India and Mexico in the last year than they have from China, an analysis of data maintained by the Food and Drug Administration shows.

China Not Sole Source of Dubious Food

New York Times
07/12/2007

By ANDREW MARTIN and GRIFF PALMER

Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too filthy to eat. Candy from Denmark that is mislabeled.

At a time when Chinese imports are under fire for being contaminated or defective, federal records suggest that China is not the only country that has problems with its exports.

Global Safeguards for a Global Economy

Washington Post
07/05/2007

By Harold Meyerson

With our nation just having celebrated its birthday, I'd like to make a modest proposal for a project that might occupy us for the next century or so: Taking the regulated, more-social capitalism that created mass prosperity in this nation and Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century and re-creating it on a global scale.

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