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Tomgram: Nick Turse, Blowback Central

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Nick Turse, Courtesy: tomdispatch.com, June 19, 2013
The other day, Hamid Karzai, the U.S.-supported Afghan president who was once sardonically nicknamed “the mayor of Kabul,” had a few curious things to say about American policy in the Muslim world. Karzai, of course, is a man whose opinions -- whether on U.S. special operations forces and their (out of control) militias, U.S. night raids on Afghan homes, or U.S. air strikes on Afghan villages -- Washington loves to ignore. He is considered...

Who Manufactures Dirty Medicines?

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Amit Sengupta, June 15, 2013
A few weeks back Fortune magazine and CNN carried a long online blog titled ‘Dirty Medicine’ by Dinesh Thakur, a former employ of Ranbaxy, where he recounts how he came across several procedural and other lapses in the company’s manufacturing facilities. Since then the Fortune blog has become one of the most widely circulated and commented upon business stories in the world. The story received attention as it came in the wake of a US$...

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