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A Pistachio Farmer, Pom Wonderful, and the FTC

California philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick own a pistachio empire twice the size of Sacramento. Now they're facing lawsuits over water control and the health claims of Pom Wonderful
By Susan Berfield
On an unexpectedly rainy October day in Los Angeles, Stewart Resnick looks out the window of a third-floor conference room and shrugs.

How the US became the world's dispensable nation | FT

In a second inaugural address tinged with evangelical zeal, George W. Bush declared: "Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world." The peoples of the world, however, do not seem to be listening. A new world order is indeed emerging - but its architecture is being drafted in Asia and Europe, at meetings to which Americans have not been invited.

The terrible cost of an unethical foreign policy

Rarely has the old saying that our enemy's enemies are our friends been more apt. In the past three years, since the attacks on New York and the declaration of the war on terrorism, the so-called civilised world has reached new heights of duplicity in its approach to human rights. It has shed consistency in favour of exigency. Ultimately, we shall all pay the price.

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