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By Ben Bagdikian
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By Tony Blair
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Sebastiaan ter Burg (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte became the latest political victim of the eurozone crisis as he tendered his resignation along with his cabinet’s Monday after the collapse of talks over his country’s austerity budget.
Posted on Apr 23, 2012
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Felipe Neves (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Terrorized by gunmen, loggers, drug traffickers and encroaching farmers, the 355 surviving members of the Amazonian Awá tribe face extinction if the Brazilian government and the international community fail to protect them from what a Brazilian judge termed “a real genocide.”
Posted on Apr 23, 2012
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Photo by (CC-BY)
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Until his daughter, Marine, captured 19 percent of the vote in France’s first round of presidential elections Sunday, Jean Marie Le Pen was the country’s most politically successful right-wing crazy. In a way he saw this coming, promoting his daughter, as The Guardian recalls, as a “big healthy blonde girl ... an ideal physical specimen.”
Posted on Apr 22, 2012
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Caveman Chuck Coker (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Good news for democracy: Lawmakers at all levels of government met with activists on Capitol Hill this week to sign a “Declaration for Democracy” in support of the effort to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision.
Posted on Apr 21, 2012
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United Nations Photo (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Humanitarian groups withheld aid from Somalis suffering the effects of a severe drought that killed tens of thousands and displaced more than a million people last year out of fear that their assistance would amount to material support for regional terrorists under the U.S. Patriot Act, a Davidson College professor says.
Posted on Apr 21, 2012
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wilhemlja (CC-BY-SA 2.0)
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In spite of a still-bleak economy, the average cost of rent in Manhattan sits at an all-time high of $3,148 a month. And with a 1 percent vacancy rate and just over 2,200 rentals slated for construction this year, landlords will continue to dominate the market.
Posted on Apr 21, 2012
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itsray (CC-BY)
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Three members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot face up to seven years in jail for seizing the pulpit of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in mid-February and mocking Vladimir Putin, then a candidate for the Russian presidency.
Posted on Apr 21, 2012
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AP/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool
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George Zimmerman, the volunteer neighborhood watch patrolman charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, apologized to the teenager’s family Friday as a judge set bail at $150,000.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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U.S. Embassy Kabul Afghanistan
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for an accelerated departure of American forces a day after controversial photos were published showing U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of insurgents.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
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A new vice presidential poll shows Republicans and conservative-leaning independents favor former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be Mitt Romney’s running mate.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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AP/Frank Augstein
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Early in the 20th century, Ayn Rand admired serial killer William Hickman from afar. Today, 23-year-old Massachusetts resident Kevin Forts has found his own murderous darling in the figure of accused terrorist Anders Breivik.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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nestor galina (CC-BY)
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has infuriated Spanish oil barons by proposing a bill that would recover a majority share of a petroleum company from a foreign firm that has owned it since the early ’90s.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Silvio Tanaka (CC-BY)
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The British government’s plan to turn the Internet into a national intelligence cache that stores data on every U.K. Web surfer was frustrated Tuesday when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, condemned such a move as a “destruction of human rights.”
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Department of Defense
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Months after U.S. Marines were videotaped urinating on Afghan corpses comes the latest scandal: photographs of American soldiers posing with the remains of Afghan insurgents.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Derek Purdy (CC-BY)
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Robert King, one of the “Angola 3,” spent three decades in prison—most of them in solitary confinement—for activities involving the Black Panthers. He was released in 2001, but the others remain. One week before the 40th anniversary of their incarceration, he told the ACLU what doing time did to him.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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