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TVM Dialog List 1002
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A listing of the TVM Dialog in date uploaded / date modified order
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TVM Concepts
Metrics
Financial performance of an organization is an inadequate metric.
Open file 51
Microfinance and Social Business
Bangladesh: Yunus and the risks in Politics
Microfinance in Bangladesh ... Yunus aware of the risks in Politics
Open file 52
Information and Technology
What they know ... the really smart cell phone
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data
Open file 53
Information and Technology
UN's Global Pulse Initiative
The UN's Global Pulse Initiative has potential to use mobile data to identify trends
Open file 54
Corruption ... Financial Malfeasance
Medicines funded by GFATM being stolen
Partners in crime: theft of Global Fund Mmdicines by national partners
Open file 55
Information ... Misinformation
Misinformation is a political staple
US beltway politics ... Misinformation is a serious problem!
Open file 56
Country ... Cote d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast: A UN failure
Politics based on 'winner takes all' democracy places great tension on society
Open file 57
Education
Does a Harvard education pay off?
The data do not confirm that better education pays better than just a good education
Open file 58
Region ... Africa
China rising economically
What is the US Africom's 'Star Wars' goal? ... The Pentagon's Africom strategy takes aim at China's web of investments - and natural resources
Open file 59
Country ... Yemen
Freedom for local people, or 'security' for USA
Hueys over Yemen: How to arm a dictator ... Is US aid suppressing another struggle for freedom in the Middle East?
Open file 60
Country ... Palestine
Fatah and Hamas on verge of historic deal
Palestine rivals say an interim national unity government will be established, with elections within a year
Open file 61
Terrorism
War against terror ... costly, inefficient
After Osama: Stop feeding the beast ... Bin Laden's discovery in Abbottabad raises questions over US military funding to Pakistan.
Open file 62
Freedon of Speach
Is limitless freedom of expression possible?
Freedom of speech requires careful consideration, given the possibility of backlash against behaviour deemed offensive.
Open file 63
Countries ... Libya
Sovereign Libya: A letter to Vladimir Putin
Russian leader's opposition to international action against Gaddafi's regime is motivated by economic interests.
Open file 64
Terrorism
Bin Laden ... Dead
War on terror ... killing the alibi ... Washington has less reason or justification to wage a war in Afghanistan now that bin Laden is no more.
Open file 65
Country ... Haiti
Governance
Is President Martelly another disaster? What are Martelly's connection with coup-plotters, fascists, and armed right-wing groups?
Open file 66
Country ... Pakistan
USA / Pakistan rift over bin Laden raid
Pakistan army threatens to reconsider US ties ... After US raid that killed bin Laden, Pakistan warns against future raid and US politicians question Pakistan aid following bin Laden's killing in Abbottabad.
Open file 67
Country ... Iran
Governance
Iran: Ahmadinejad row with Khamenei intensifies ... Iranian president said to be considering resignation after intelligence chief he fired was reinstated.
Open file 68
Book
The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War
It may be time for dialog about the difficult issue of borders in Africa to start
Open file 69
Country ... USA
The bin Laden raid into Pakistan
Nailing Osama: The media's delight ... The circumstances and timing of Osama bin Laden's death is all about politics
Open file 70
Country ... Syria
Arab Awakening
Syria: Hundreds being killed by Assad regime ... Syrian tanks storm Sunni neighborhoods in Banias, targeting anti-Assad protesters
Open file 71
New York City
Wage economics in the city
Living wage opponents to bark back ... debate over wage regulation in New York City
Open file 72
AlJazeera English ... Features
After Osama, China fears the next target
The geopolitical aspirations of China may be on collision course with the USA
Open file 73
Microfinance and Social Business
Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
Grameen Bank official harassed and threatened. Police to probe
Open file 74
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Global capitalism and 21st century fascism
The global economic crisis and capitalist market economics fuel faschist attacks on immigrant rights
Open file 75
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Martelly: Haiti's second great disaster
Haiti's new president is a friend of coup-plotters, fascists, and armed right-wing groups
Open file 76
AlJazeeri English ... Opinion
The global economy's corporate crime wave
The world is drowning in corporate fraud in rich countries with strong 'rule of law'
Open file 77
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The IMF's change of heart
Changes at the International Monetary Fund associate national economic well-being with social equality and justice.
Open file 78
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Myth-busting the Bangladesh war of 1971
Too much of the historical narratives of the 1971 civil war that broke up East Pakistan are forgotten
Open file 79
AlJazeera English ... Features
Profiteering from hunger and chaos
Glencore: the world's largest commodities trader is going public. Critics blame them for high commodity prices
Open file 80
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Obama: Courage to kill, but not to lead
TO ADD
Open file 81
AlJazeera English ... Africa News
Libyan oil minister Shokri Ghanem 'defects'
The defection of Shokri Ghanem is a huge loss to Gaddafi's government
Open file 82
AlJazeera English ... Inside Story
UAE: Arming up with mercenaries
What possible security risks could have motivated the UAE to hire outside help?
Open file 83
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The blackboard monopolists
Promises of education reform are key to election campaigns, but teachers' unions stifle change in schools.
Open file 84
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
North Africa's battle for economic revolution
The uprisings are not solely about ideology, but social and economic change, and achieving that will require creativity.
Open file 85
Al Jazeera English ... Opinion
Obama gives up, AIPAC wins
Supporters of justice in the Middle East need to raise their voices, lest president hears only Israel's shouting.
Open file 86
AlJazeera English ... Americas
Obama to deliver a speech on 'Arab Spring'
The address aims at spelling out US policy toward waves of political changes sweeping North Africa and the Middle East.
Open file 87
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Western media fraud in the Middle East
Too many journalists report official narratives of the powerful, missing the stories of working class people.
Open file 88
Al Jazeera English ... Opinion
Saleh: Suppressing opponents from within
In Yemen, president's regime has long used torture as part of its 'security apparatus'.
Open file 89
Country ... China
Ten reasons why China is different
Despite a new wave of criticism regarding China's economy, it has fundamental strengths which cannot be ignored.
Open file 90
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Haleh Sahabi: Our Antigone in Tehran
Haleh Sahabi defied human law to defend moral, divine law; her life writing a heroic legend of the future.
Open file 91
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Misunderstood mandates and medicare madness
Democrats and Rebulicans seem incapable of keeping promises to their constituents, epitomised by the health care debate.
Open file 92
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The unbearable lightness of killing
Earth to Gaddafi and Saleh: Your time is up, stop murdering your people
Open file 93
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
The mathematics of the Arab Spring
Since ousting their leaders, Egypt and Tunisia are facing difficult choices on balancing the influences of foreign aid.
Open file 94
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Sudan: Half the horror remains untold
As the south prepares to declare independence, western media incorrectly frame current violence as entirely one-sided.
Open file 95
AlJazeera English ... Opinion
Under the cover of democracy
US and its allies assist will be using neoliberal economic policies to make sure new Arab governments stay in line.
Open file 96
East Asia Forum
The removal of Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank
The removal of Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank now seems irrevocable
Open file 97
Eastern Panorama in India
Prof Yunus: Victim of Political Vendetta
Professor Yunus: Victim of Political Vendetta in Bangladesh
Open file 98
IRAQ
ACCOUNTABILITY

Missing Iraq cash 'as high as $18bn'. Iraq's parliament speaker tells Al Jazeera unaccounted reconstruction money is three times the reported $6.6bn.
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ARAB SPRING
LEBANON

Arab Spring exposes Nasrallah's hypocrisy ... The Shia leader is happy to support protesters in Bahrain and Egypt, but he won't criticise Syria's violent crackdown.
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