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Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at US Airports
The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the …
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Ending Violence Against Women Is Defending Human Rights and Dignity
“I was excited to come to US, but since my arrival I have not had one happy day. He needed a servant and a nanny for his kids. For …
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Is Europe Over?
Europe has always been a rather tenuous concept. A rump continent, Europe represented the barbarous hinterlands for the Greeks and Romans. The first use of the term “European” occurred …
As Zuccotti Park Is Cleared, Congress Moves to Gut Financial Reform (2)
Police officers tear down tents and tarps at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, on November 15, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) …
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Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop
Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision …
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Many Americans Left Behind in the Quest for Cleaner Air
For all of her 62 years, Lois Dorsey has lived five blocks from a mass of petrochemical plants in Baton Rouge. She worries about the health of people in …
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Regroup After Morning Raid on Zuccotti Park
In the smallest hours of the morning, with no warning or apparent provocation, hundreds of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers, some from the department's counterterrorism unit, many in …
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Rebuilding Libya (2)
Muammar Gaddafi’s misuse of governmental instruments and assets for over 42 years has left a gaping political vacuum, a severely impaired civil service, and a virtually non-existent civil society …
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Justices Scalia, Thomas Honored at Fundraiser Sponsored by Health Care Reform Opponents
A few hours after the Supreme Court justices met last Thursday, November 10, to consider hearing challenges to the national health care overhaul, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas …
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Arundhati Roy: Occupy Wall Street Is “So Important Because It Is in the Heart of Empire“
Renowned Indian writer and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is preparing to address Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday. She recently joined us in the studio to talk about the …