Thursday, September 08, 2005
from Common Dreams News Center
UN Hits Back at US in Report Saying Parts of America are as Poor as Third World, by Paul Vallely
...It reveals that the infant mortality rate has been rising in the US for the past five years - and is now the same as Malaysia. America's black children are twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday...
... And, in unusually outspoken language, it accuses the US of having "an overdeveloped military strategy and an under-developed strategy for human security"...
