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12/20/2005:

"World's poorest pay for WTO compromise: Africa"

Johannesburg, December 19: Africans reacted with dismay on Monday to a World Trade Organisation compromise deal on global trade, saying the world's poorest continent would pay the price for the intransigence of rich nations.

"The developed countries once again failed to extend a hand of solidarity to the poor," South Africa's powerful COSATU labour federation said in a statement, calling Sunday's last-minute WTO agreement in Hong Kong an 'abysmal failure'.

"The situation will remain that it would be better to be a cow in Japan, subsidised for $7 per day, than to be a human being living in Africa," he said.
expressindia.com

Wolfowitz Has Moved on From Iraq
Paul Wolfowitz -- one of the chief architects at the Pentagon of the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- is a lucky man.
He doesn't have to worry any more about whether his past hawkish Pentagon policies were right or wrong or worth the human sacrifice.

Wolfowitz has moved on to become president of the World Bank, where his job is giving multibillion-dollar loans to underdeveloped countries.

In a formal speech at the National Press Club on Dec. 7, Wolfowitz wanted to speak about global poverty, not Iraq.