- This Day in African History – Ethiopia regains its Independence
- On 5 May 1941, exactly five years after Addis Ababa fell to Mussolini's troops, Emperor Haile Selassie was reinstalled on the Ethiopian throne. He reentered the city through streets lined with black and white African soldiers, having fought his way back against a determined Italian army with Major Orde Wingate's Gideon Force and his own Ethiopian 'Patriots".
…That Italy, like Germany after World War I, had its African Empire taken away, signaled a major change in European attitude towards the continent.
- Fears and Failure – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- …the destructive effect of focusing on invisible monsters. …the clear and present danger to the American economy isn’t what some people imagine might happen one of these days, it’s what is actually happening now.
Unemployment isn’t just blighting the lives of millions, it’s undermining America’s future.
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- The Republican Descent Into Economic Darkness – NYTimes.com
- I’ve been writing for a couple of years about the academic descent into a Dark Age of macroeconomics, in which much of the profession has forgotten things they used to know. But that has been a gradual process. The GOP descent into the intellectual abyss, by contrast, has been stunningly swift.
Some of this is just partisanship: wanna bet that, say, John Taylor would be a lot more sympathetic to expansionary policies if his party held the White House? But the truth — which I suspect that people like Greg aren’t willing to face, yet — is that the intellectual barbarians have completely overrun a party that even a few years ago was still capable of making sense.
- ThinkProgress » GRAPH: Income Inequality In U.S. Worse Than Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Ethiopia
- …the following graph…demonstrates that the United States is now about as economically unequal as Uganda and more unequal than countries like Pakistan or the Ivory Coast:…
Income inequality in the United States is actually higher than at any other time in modern history since the Great Depression. There is also a tremendous amount of inequality even in life expectancy…
- Clinton says action needed to blunt food price rises
- The world has to take swift action to arrest steadily rising food prices and step up its commitment to sustainable agriculture, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.
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- Why education suffers | Pharyngula
- It's going to take a great deal of political will to accomplish this sort of change. Right now, the biggest obstacle to a better school system is a creaking, useless mechanism for funding schools that comes right out of the 18th century, and simply doesn't work: the local tax levy. Schools should all be funded at the state level, at least…
- Haiti caught cholera from UN peacekeepers
- A cholera outbreak in Haiti last October did originate with UN peacekeeping troops from Nepal, with implications for humanitarian missions in future
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