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WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR OCTOBER 20, 2003
1//Inter Press Service, Italy--THINKERS LAUNCH ANTI-EMPIRE DRIVE (Representatives of a new coalition of prominent foreign-policy scholars and analysts whose political views range from right to centre-left announced here Thursday they hope to spearhead opposition to the imperial policies pursued by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Leaders of the 'Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy' charged that the administration is moving ''in a dangerous direction toward empire'', an idea that they said has never been embraced by the U.S. public….Among the more prominent right-wing signers are Doug Bandow, a special assistant to former president Ronald Reagan and now a senior officer at the libertarian Cato Institute…Representing more centrist positions are Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation, former senator Gary Hart and Harvard international relations professor Stephen Walt…More left-wing figures in the group include Charles Kupchan, an aide to former president Bill Clinton now with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Kenneth Sharpe, a prominent foreign-policy analyst from Swarthmore College in Philadelphia.)
2//The Independent, UK--ARAB NATIONS ‘FAILING TO INVEST OIL REVENUES’ (Arab nations are squandering their oil wealth and under-investing in education and scientific research, according to an influential UN report released today. Following on from last year's unprecedented report that provoked widespread debate and controversy, the second Arab Human Development Report, written by 40 Arab intellectuals, criticises Arab governments for losing out on the potential educational gains of their vast oil revenues by entrusting their development to foreign corporations.)
3//The Australian, Australia--SCOTLAND YARD FOILS PUTIN KILL PLOT (Scotland Yard has thwarted a suspected plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, after arresting a renegade Russian intelligence agent in London. Detectives from its anti-terrorist branch, SO13, arrested the former KGB major, who is a trained hitman, and a second Russian after a tip-off last weekend.)
4//The Globe and Mail, Canada--MARTIN PLANS TO BE FISCAL MISER (Almost every federal government department will have its budget pared in one of the first acts of a Paul Martin government, senior aides to the incoming prime minister say…Finding money to shorten waiting times for medical procedures, a bold attempt to eradicate native poverty, and an early meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush are also part of the plan.)
5//Deutsche-Welle/dw-world.de, Germany--SWISS ELECTION BOOSTS RIGHT-WING (The vote for a new parliament in Switzerland has resulted in an upset unheard of for decades. The right-wing People's Party with its isolationist policies has triumphed at the polls, according to initial results…The party provoked controversy in the last few weeks with an aggressive poster campaign suggesting that immigrants were criminals. The first poster featured a caricatured black face and a slogan reading, "The Swiss are increasingly becoming the Negros." Following widespread criticism the poster was withdrawn.)
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