Mike Roddy

Position: Journalist

Articles

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High gold price swells ranks of illegal miners July 14, 02:53am EDT 

LONDON (Reuters) - Poor men and women in Ghana, ex-militia fighters in steamy eastern Congo and farmers in Peru are among those joining the ranks of illegal miners and risking their lives as they seek to profit from soaring gold prices.  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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"Give peace a chance...."

What if they gave a concert for peace and nobody heard it?   Full Article 

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"Deja vu all over again" in struggling Hungary?

Hungary has negotiated a $25 billion economic rescue package with the IMF, the EU and the World Bank. What else is new? As that non-Hungarian philosopher of gamesmanship Yogi Berra put it, it’s "like ...  Full Article