Month May 2009

Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter

Yesterday the Government of Sri Lanka shelled a hospital killing 50 people, and a home for mentally ill women, killing 38.  This follows Sunday’s shelling of the same hospital, which killed hundreds. The ongoing slaughter stems from the LTTE keeping…

Time for empathetic capitalism?

Barron’s, that bastion of capitalism, calls for a kinder, gentler capitalism. Or at least a return to what it was meant to be. [Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Wen] is no paragon of economic and political freedom. Wen does, however, grasp…