Much of this systemic perversion of justice took place decades ago, but the Ashcroft-Mueller crowd is determined to keep the embarrassing institutional history hushed up.
Political cross-dressing is a distinguishing feature of this systemic scandal, much of it entirely legal, in which the only currency that counts comes in green, not the red and blue of the electoral map.
The NGO interviewed more than 500 workers and concluded that debt bondage and the illegal confiscation of passports and documents were the main drivers of this "systemic" forced labour, which traps workers in low-paid jobs and prevents them from returning home.
What, more than eight years after 9/11, and more than four years after the issuance of the 9/11 commission's findings, are we to make of this systemic failure?
If we are going to build our way out of this systemic crisis instead of urgently plugging gaps, the European edifice must be put on a more solid foundation through the authorization of such bonds together with the creation of a European Treasury entrusted with their management.
Mechanism of this systemic regulation is less understood in rice, although the existence of similar regulation has been suggested (Enomoto et al. [2009]).
