Following the Libya news? Here’s the Al Jazeera Libya live blog.
We spent time with the rebel forces in Libya in this Fault Lines episode that first aired in July. The episode examines the US decision to intervene in Libya and what it reveals about US priorities in the region.
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The Rise of the New Global Elite
What is more relevant to our times, though, is that the rich of today are also different from the rich of yesterday. Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth. Its members are hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition—and many of them, as a result, have an ambivalent attitude toward those of us who didn’t succeed so spectacularly. Perhaps most noteworthy, they are becoming a transglobal community of peers who have more in common with one another than with their countrymen back home. Whether they maintain primary residences in New York or Hong Kong, Moscow or Mumbai, today’s super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves.
“The Rise of the New Global Elite,” The Atlantic, Chrystia Freeland, January/February 2011
Great read. Our Monday Fault Lines episode, “The Top 1%” is about the issue of financial, citizenship, and power.
Source: The Atlantic
In the first of a two-part series, Fault Lines examines how the Obama administration is reacting to the enormous changes taking place across the Middle East. Part one examines the decision to intervene in Libya and what it reveals about US priorities in the region.
Presenter Sebastian Walker explains why the rebels are willing to take up antiquated arms in this video extra from the upcoming episode of Al Jazeera Fault Lines.
“I think most of these weapons are ones that have been liberated from the Qadaffi forces….Some of [the guns] date back to the second World War.”
The new episode of Fault Lines, “The US and the New Middle East: Libya,” first airs on Al Jazeera English July 18, 2011 at 2230 GMT.
A young rebel recruit learns how to operate an anti-aircraft gun at the rebel training compound.
photo by Jeremy Young
The new Fault Lines episode, “The US and the New Middle East: Libya” first airs Monday, July 18, 2011 2230 GMT on Al Jazeera English.
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Producer Jeremy Young on the reality of filming in Libya near borders and oil facilities in this video extra from the upcoming episode of Al Jazeera Fault Lines.
“I can’t tell you how many times on this trip someone has taken their hand and put it over the lens of our camera. We’ve actually had material that was forcibly deleted off of our cameras…there hasn’t been a lot of freedom for us to operate.”
The new episode of Fault Lines, “The US and the New Middle East: Libya,” first airs on Al Jazeera English July 18, 2011 at 2230 GMT.
Indian women dancing at a wedding celebration at a village near Indore.
See all of producer Jeremy Young’s photos from Monday’s episode, “Outsourced: Clinical Trials Overseas” in this Flickr set:
Episode first aired Monday, 11 July, 2011 2230 GMT (6:30p EST) on Al Jazeera English.
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A lot of the research largely done by pharmaceutical companies has been offshored with the specific intention of doing research in a more financially congenial environment,” said Arras.
Source: NPR
The increasing reliance on clinical trials in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America raises serious questions. Is the quality of the data as reliable as that from a top U.S. medical center? Is it safe to extrapolate common clinical effects from studying patients with different lifestyles and genetic profiles? And are ethical standards in testing new drugs properly upheld in poorer countries? After all, there is an unhappy history of exploitation of the disadvantaged in trials, as highlighted by a shocking U.S. study in the 1940s which saw prisoners and the mentally ill deliberately infected with syphilis in Guatemala.
Source: reuters.com
