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Reality Check, Please (by Elizabeth Palmberg)
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Normally I’m a big fan of science fiction, but I nearly swallowed my teeth when I heard America Abroad’s recent program on the World Bank on my local NPR affiliate, WAMU, last Sunday. My choppers would have been a lot easier to stomach than the show’s assertion that, in the 1980s, policies pushed by the…
Fasting for Jubilee on Capitol Hill by David Duncombe
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From September 6 – October 15, individuals and congregations will commit to fasting for a day or more in order to call for debt cancellation for desperately poor nations, joining Jubilee USA in supporting the Jubilee Act, H.R. 2634. (See Sojourners’ August issue for coverage of the debt crisis.) Rev. David Duncombe will be fasting,…
Justin Alexander: Stating the Odious
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When Saddam Hussein’s regime executed someone, it required the victim’s family to pay for the bullets used. An appalling practice – but one which, Iraqis in the Jubilee Iraq campaign say, bears all too much resemblance to present-day demands that Iraq’s people pay debts Hussein racked up during the Iran-Iraq war, which devastated the country…
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