Kuala Lumpur  41 days of exile Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had a candidate to front for the Iraqi people — Dr. Ahmad Chalabi. He had been running the Iraqi National Congress for many years from the United Kingdom. He had a degree from the University of Chicago. He was connected. Former Secretary of State Colin …
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Aceh and Katrina
Yogyakarta 39 Days of Exile The tsunami on December 26th, 2004, was an unimaginable devastation for Indonesia. We met with people who usually used the figure of 200,000 dead, but essentially argued that the level was so horrendous and the destruction so immense that there was no real count and in fact some said that after …
Wal-Mart Disaster Profits
Yogyakarta 38 days of exile My friends at Wal-Mart have been getting rave reviews for how well they have handled Katrina. They ponied up $23,000,000. They had trucks ready to come in as soon as the roadblocks went down. Some of their store managers opened the stores to allow public safety and other folks to reprovision …