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  • Yet another reason to fire Paul Wolfowitz

    The Financial Times reports that a top deputy has been accused of attempting to remove references to "climate change" from a World Bank document
  • Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem

    Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
  • The comic tragedy of Paul Wolfowitz's many trials

    What connects new World Bank policy on "family planning" with the World Bank president's personal life? S-e-x.
  • A very expensive neocon love affair

    Why does Paul Wolfowitz's love interest make more than Condoleezza Rice?
  • Imagine no more universal laws

    Fighting "crony intellectualism" at the World Bank
  • A strategy for global stalling

    Bush's new, improved, super-shiny plan to do nothing about climate change
  • Too productive

    Do productivity gains and unemployment go hand in hand?
  • Pulverize this!

    If an 8-year-old boy designed an incinerator...
  • Fun with World Bank numbers

    A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we're talking real poverty
  • Blame the natives

    Former World Bank official Robert Calderisi throws p.c. rhetoric to the wind in his new book "The Trouble With Africa."
  • Smash the Consensus!

    Anti-globalizationists are trying to stop the tide. Here's a better target.
  • Is aid the problem, not the solution?

    Well-meaning activists like Bono have pressured the West into giving billions more to Africa. But is all that money doing more harm than good?
  • Wolfowitz's new agenda

    Experts say the war hawk's fealty to the oil industry could derail the World Bank's mission to reduce poverty.
  • Wolfowitz reaches out to Bono

    If the World Bank nominee was hoping for an endorsement, he still hasn't found what he's looking for.
  • Why Wolfowitz?

    Experts say the Bush administration's top neocon war strategist doesn't know anything about global development.
  • Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank

    The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius. It's that he has been consistently, astonishingly, unswervingly wrong about foreign policy for 30 years.
  • Isolated, again

    At the U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development, the harshest critics of Bush's recalcitrant policies -- and his absence -- are Americans.
  • The new gilded age and its discontents

    Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.
  • Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

    The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more.
  • Keeping an eye on protesters

    International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
  • Prague dissent

    The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their annual meeting in the Czech Republic -- a country that exemplifies growing European inequality.
  • Globalization and its discontents

    Salon's coverage of world trade talks, the rising protests and their political legacy.
  • Silencing Joseph Stiglitz

    The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters.
  • Sleeping with the enemy

    While I'm planning security for the IMF demonstrations, my husband is getting thrown in jail. He better not ask me for bail.
  • Letters to the editor

    The global impact of the D.C. protests Plus: Are Benetton death penalty ads art? Should organs be for sale?
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