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Suicide-Linked Cymbalta Promoted for Minor Conditions | The Epoch Times

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:32:00 -0400

But some, like Shannon Brownlee, author of “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,” question the revenue-driven prescribathon. Should drugs “that may have a really serious side effect called suicide,” be used for simple knee ...

Mumbai Wake-Up Call

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:12:00 -0500

A few months ago, trucks loaded with goods crossed a border. All over the world, this kind of thing happens every day, but not here. October marked the first time in 60 years that Indian trucks loaded with apples and walnuts traveled to Pakistan. The trucks returned carrying a shipment of Pakistani rice and raisins.

Around the same time, India and Pakistan increased the number of goods the two nations could trade from just 13 to nearly 2,000. They opened new freight train lines and refurbished custom houses in anticipation of vigorous cross border trade.

Anatol Lieven in the Epoch Times | 'Book Review: ‘The Essential Chomsky’'

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:50:00 -0500

Referring to the war on Iraq, Chomsky quotes political analyst Anatol Lieven: that most Americans had been “duped… by a propaganda programme which for systematic mendacity has few parallels in peacetime democracies.” LINK