http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/category/editors pick/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-12-05T18:17:55+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/category/editors pick/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/free_tuition_for_harvard_law_suspended_20091205/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/free_tuition_for_harvard_law_suspended_20091205/ harvard, law school, nonprofit, public, public interest, recession, tuition,

Two years after Harvard Law School announced it would waive a year of tuition for students who pledged to work five years in the nonprofit sector or in government, the school has suspended the program, citing both the recession and a flood of students seeking to get in on the deal.

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With 4.2 million surveillance cameras in Britain and not enough people to observe them all, a company called Internet Eyes has come up with a solution: reward volunteer “spies” with cash prizes to watch streaming camera footage and blow the whistle on evildoers.

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]]> 2009-12-05T18:00:01+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/crunch_time_for_the_climate_20091205/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/crunch_time_for_the_climate_20091205/ climate, climate change, copenhagen, crunch, environment, nobel, obama,

President Obama has shifted travel arrangements so he can be present at the final negotiating sessions of this month’s Copenhagen climate summit. The move, a result of international pressure, will have Obama making two trips to Scandinavia, one to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday in Oslo, then again Dec. 18 for the key Copenhagen discussions.

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]]> 2009-12-05T17:33:47+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/un_to_investigate_climate_email_controversy_20091204/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/un_to_investigate_climate_email_controversy_20091204/ climate change, copenhagen, east anglia, email, environment, global warming, scientist, united nations,

The apparently deliberately timed release of leaked e-mails stolen from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia has created problems for the global warming cause just as world leaders are preparing to convene at the Copenhagen climate change summit, and now the United Nations is launching its own investigation into the incident.

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]]> 2009-12-04T19:31:54+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/jaras_body_to_be_reburied_20091204/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/jaras_body_to_be_reburied_20091204/ chicago boys, chile, coup, jara, latin america, music, musician, pinochet, victor jara,

Victor Jara, acclaimed Chilean singer, was tortured and killed in 1973 during the U.S.-directed coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power. He was to be reburied in Santiago Friday after hundreds of people paid their final respects. The body had been exhumed in June to clarify how he died. He had been shot more than 30 times.

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]]> 2009-12-04T16:42:50+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/us_economy_slows_job_shedding_20091204/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/us_economy_slows_job_shedding_20091204/ economy, joblessness, jobs, labor department, labour department, moulting, unemployment,

In a sign that the U.S. economy’s two-year job-molting cycle might be coming to an end, the Labor Department reported Friday that just 11,000 American jobs were lost in November and that the unemployment rate had fallen back to 10 percent.

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On the heels of President Obama’s announcement that the U.S. will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, NATO has followed suit, pledging to add 7,000 troops to its forces there in “solidarity” with the U.S.

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]]> 2009-12-04T16:04:34+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/jewish_groups_object_to_switzerlands_minaret_ban_20091203/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/jewish_groups_object_to_switzerlands_minaret_ban_20091203/ islam, italy, jewish, minaret, muslim, parliament, rabbi, religious discrimination, svp, switzerland,

Recognizing that this week’s popular vote to forbid the building of minarets in Switzerland represented a blatant show of religious intolerance it couldn’t ignore, an association of Jewish organizations is expressing its strong disagreement with the ban and calling on Swiss leaders to defend religious freedom.

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The president is so desperate for ways to fight unemployment he issued a call Thursday for “fresh perspectives and new ideas.” Well, Nancy Pelosi has some. The House speaker wants to spend some of that hot, hot TARP money on job creation. (continued)

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]]> 2009-12-04T03:19:29+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/google_can_help_newspapers_says_google_ceo_20091203/ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/google_can_help_newspapers_says_google_ceo_20091203/ advertising, eric schmidt, google, internet, news, newspapers, print media, search engine,

Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt has gazed into the future of the news business, and—surprise!—he sees Google playing a big, vital role. In his Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece, Schmidt heralds the advent, in the not-so-distant future, of an era in which the Internet “will foster a new, digital business model.” Hmmm!

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