(April 30, 2007) The submission of Paul Wolfowitz’s lawyer, Robert Bennett, to the World Bank’s ad hoc committee.
Statement of Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank ad hoc committee
(April 30, 2007) “I find it inconceivable that the Ethics Committee did not know the details of the arrangements with Ms. Riza. The information was certainly available to them and I assume they were not negligent in their duties.”
Dutch Rub-Out
(April 30, 2007) Verdict first, trial later: the real disgrace here isn’t Mr. Wolfowitz or Ms. Riza but the World Bank itself and its self-protecting staff and European directors.
From papal indulgences to carbon credits: Is global warming a sin?
(April 28, 2007) In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet’s rapid downward slide.
Chinese government, companies ordered to release pollution figures
(April 27, 2007) China’s State Environment Protection Administration will enact a new measure from May 1, 2008, asking China’s environmental departments and polluters to publish information regarding environmental degradation and pollution.
China’s environment watchdog blocks 12 industrial projects for lack of public support
(April 27, 2007) Twelve industrial projects are denied environmental protection approvals to operation on grounds that the public have not been invited to assess pollution control measures, China’s environment watchdog announced yesterday.
China environment official wants action by citizens
(April 26, 2007) A top Chinese environmental official said on Wednesday that greater citizen involvement was needed to rein in the country’s powerful polluters as he announced new transparency rules.
Carbon Boondoggles
(April 26, 2007) To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, Canada’s federal government plans to push Canadian corporations into buying carbon credits under the so-called “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM), a system established under the Kyoto Protocol by which companies in rich countries buy “rights to pollute” from companies in poor countries. The poor-country companies, in exchange, promise to give up their own greenhouse-gas producing activities.
EU lawmakers call for Wolfowitz to step down
(April 25, 2007) Strasbourg, France: The European Parliament on Wednesday called for the resignation of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, adding to the pressure on the head of the poverty-fighting institution to step down.
World Bank faces setback to war on corruption
(April 23, 2007) The actions of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz have led to allegations of impropriety just when his campaign against corruption had gathered momentum.
New inquiry into BAE scandal
(April 20, 2007) A fresh investigation into the U.K.’s efforts to tackle bribery and corruption is to be carried out by a high-powered international team after the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expressed "serious concerns" about the British government’s decision to drop an inquiry into a huge arms deal between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia, reports Michael Harrison for the Belfast Telegraph.
New illegitimate debt news source
(April 20, 2007) Debt campaigners CADTM, Eurodad, Jubilee South and Jubilee USA have jointly launched a new publication on illegitimate debt campaigns. The Illegitimate Debt Campaign Bulletin will focus on recent and forthcoming actions by activists in the worldwide campaign to end illegitimate debt in a bid to promote communication among groups and increase involvement. The bulletin will publish every two months. The first issue is available online now.
Campaigns against illegitimate debt
(April 20, 2007) Several exciting campaigns by debt activists address opening up government loan records to the public and creditor co-responsibility for illegitimate debt.
Cambodia: Asian Development Bank fails fishermen
(April 19, 2007) A planned survey to check the economic pulse of fishing communities
Internal Attack
(April 17, 2007) Since its creation in 1944, the World Bank has become the world’s leading architect of Third World corruption. In the Third World countries themselves, the World Bank has created hundreds of state-owned enterprises and then lavished them with money, requiring their officials to subject themselves neither to public oversight nor the bank’s own scrutiny. Among the Western suppliers to these corrupt state corporations, the bank awarded billions of dollars in contracts, again without public oversight or bank scrutiny, let alone market discipline.
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