Woke up this morning to the startling news that US President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Price–and a perceptive entry on Huffington Post wondering why. After all, he has initiated a slow and limited timetable for withdrawing from Iraq, pretty much continuing the “progress” of his predecessor–and has made very clear his [...]
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Corruption Roundup: Many ‘Stories, One URL
August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Business Ethics, Ethics in Government, Ethics-International, Ethics: General
Exactly how did Bernie Madoff steal his billions? Why are Halliburton’s hands so dirty? What happened with corruption cases in the rebuilding of Iraq? Following a link from EthicsWorld’s e-newsletter, I came to a single URL that has multiple stories on corruption: http://www.ethicsworld.org/publicsectorgovernance/corruptioninvestigations.php#sec. This is what we’re up against, those of us who believe in [...]
Obama’s Groundbreaking Middle East Speech
June 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Peace and War, Politics
It is so amazing for me to watch a major foreign policy and development speech by a sitting US president and actually agree with more than 80 percent of it–yet that was the case for Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt. Even under Clinton, I was lucky if I agreed with him 25 or 30 percent [...]
Tags: afghanistan·bzarack obama·cairo speech·egypt·feminism·iddle east·iran·iraq·islam·israel·muslims
Madoff Goes Transparent–When Will Bush?
March 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Business Ethics
Bernard Madoff is, by his own admission, a despicable human being. Here’s the opening paragraph of his statement on sentencing: Your Honor, for many years up until my arrest on December 11, 2008, I operated a Ponzi scheme through the investment advisory side of my business, Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC, which was located here [...]
Tags: bernard madoff·bernie madoff·cheney·george w. bush·iraq·ponzi scheme·rumsfeld
