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By Mark Heisler
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By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
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abcnews.go.com
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It’s kind of awkward, when one is trying to woo Republican family values enthusiasts, to have one’s ex-wife drop the kind of PR bomb that Newt Gingrich’s second missus, Marianne Gingrich, just did at the height of the campaign season.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Brad Montgomery (CC-BY)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has suggested steep cuts to social programs that benefit parents and children on the verge of homelessness. Brown is hoping to close a $9.2 billion hole in the budget (and drum up support for tax hikes) by asking the state’s most desperate families to do without.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Microbe World (CC-BY)
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Four tuberculosis patients in India were found to be untreatable with the best available drugs. Experts who say the country’s program for dealing with the disease does not adequately address resistant strains are calling for an overhaul of its treatment methods, including rigorous adherence to medication regimens.
Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
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On the day it was announced that British unemployment had risen to close to 2.7 million people, a high court judge ruled that Occupy London protesters must dismantle their encampment on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the city’s center. The protesters, who expressed both defiance and resolve, were given seven days to appeal the decision.
Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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To protest two pieces of legislation that threaten the free and open Internet as we know it, thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, are taking themselves offline. Others, including Google, are asking users to take action. (more)
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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Flickr / SimonAlparaz (CC-BY)
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For obvious reasons, Americans’ savings accounts are shrinking during this ongoing recession, both because there’s not as much money to deposit and many more reasons to make withdrawals. This has consequences for the economy’s long-term recovery prospects, as does another currently popular method of payment: the credit card.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons / Raymond (CC-BY-SA)
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Savvy Truthdig readers (as if there were any other kind) already know that the drug business is highly political here in the States, but the story of the Chinese malaria remedy artemisinin takes it up several notches on the international stage with a saga spanning several decades. Oh, and Chairman Mao is also involved.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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Christian Peralta (CC-BY-SA)
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Friends tell the Los Angeles Times that Itzcoatl “Izzy” Ocampo returned from Iraq a changed man. The ex-Marine from Orange County, Calif., is accused of killing four homeless men, each stabbed more than 40 times. “He’s a veteran who did not get the help he needed,” said a fellow Marine, adding that she had trusted Ocampo with her life.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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Twitter
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Rupert Murdoch is a surprisingly good tweeter, direct and revealing in his comments, but he is also the head of a media conglomerate, so when he loses his cool and fires off a shot at “[p]iracy leader” Google, it has reverberations beyond the nail salon.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons / Lynda Poulter (CC-BY-SA)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron made a good call Monday by declaring that no funds from U.K. taxpayers’ pockets should be funneled toward gifting Queen Elizabeth II with a shiny new $90 million yacht on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Flickr / e-MagineArt.com (CC-BY)
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The Obama administration is laying the legal groundwork to strongly encourage (read: enforce) more transparency between pharmaceutical companies and doctors by requiring drugmakers to divulge the details of their monetary exchanges with M.D.s for various services and perks.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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People often knock polls, but in the case of Jon Huntsman, the numbers didn’t lie. After trailing most candidates for the majority of the race, Huntsman has reportedly decided to quit the stump and endorse fellow Mormon and alleged moderate Mitt Romney. Updated
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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AP / Muzaffar Salman
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The Arab League and the rest of the international community seem at a loss to prevent rising tension and violence in Syria from driving the country into full-blown civil war.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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zoe J (CC-BY)
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In these days of dwindling budgets, the austerity thing can go too far: Police in Harrisburg, Pa., have been given the OK to shoot stray dogs rather than take them to local shelters.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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