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...believe in any form of vengeance. But to allow the war crimes that were committed in our name, to invade a sovereign nation that did not and was not going to attack us, to have that war line the pockets of the companies that funded your campaign - this is the most egregious thing that has happened during my lifetime, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice. If we fail to do that, it will be the green light to a future Administration to do it all over again...
...This reform cedes great chunks of our territory to foreign companies," Lopez Obrador told Congress on Tuesday, just before the final vote on the law. "Mexico should go on being a free, independent and sovereign country. We do not want to become a colony...
...blasts. Early reports from officials in Assam pinned the blasts on the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), a group that has been agitating against the government since 1979. (See here for a TIME Archive story on the origins of Assam's troubles.) Its often violent campaign for a sovereign Assam began in earnest in 1990. The group seeks an end to what it has called "colonial rule" by the central government in New Delhi and the expulsion of non-Assamese, particularly Hindi-speakers, from the state. ULFA has denied responsibility for the blasts...
...forever. In the past month, all three major Icelandic banks have been effectively nationalized, the stock market has crashed, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been called in to calm international investors and prevent the country’s bankruptcy. As the global financial crisis claims its first sovereign victim, it is important to understand that every party involved would have benefited from more coordinated international regulation. The crisis affecting Iceland has its roots in the catastrophic consequences of an oversized banking industry in a country without the financial muscle to become a lender of last resort amidst...
...synchronizing swimming styles is easier said than done. Despite being the global cheerleader for a united response to the crisis, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday announced that France would be creating its own national sovereign fund to buy stocks in troubled private companies. On Tuesday, Germany had rejected Sarkozy's call to create a European-wide sovereign fund that could prevent Europeans waking up "to find European companies belong to non-European capital, bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage...