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Arrivederci, Water Profiteers: Why 96 Percent of Italian Voters Rejected Their Government’s Push for Water Privatization
Rome, Italy. (Photo: laszlo-photo) "Water—whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold—will in large part determine whether …
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Pressure on James Murdoch Is About to Intensify
After his testimony in Parliament was challenged by two former senior employees and referred by a lawmaker to Scotland Yard for investigation, James Murdoch has come under rising pressure …
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House GOP and Senate Democrats Each Prepare Debt Plans
Washington - With world financial markets watching nervously, top Democrats and Republicans in Congress each scrambled Sunday to put together new proposals to avert a looming government debt default …
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Rival Debt Plans Being Assembled by Party Leaders
Washington - The House speaker, John A. Boehner, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, were preparing separate backup plans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling on Sunday after …
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New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
Tomas Rueda, of the Hispanic Republican Club of Cleveland, a poll challenger, monitors voting at a polling site in Cleveland on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov 2, 2004. (Photo: Andrea …
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Mubarak and Murdoch: The Arab Spring Gives Way to the Anglo-American Summer
Tourists look on as members of the protest group Avaaz hold an anti-Rupert Murdoch demonstration outside Parliament in London, on July 19, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New …
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Breaking the Israel-Palestine Impasse
On a recent trip to Israel, I visited a school in Sderot featuring bunkers in the playground. I asked the principal what she thought about her government: “Things are …
Greece’s Crisis Long in the Making
Riot police push protesters back under a blanket of tear gas during protests in Athens, Greece, on June 15, 2011. (Photo: Eirini Vourloumis / The New York Times) …
Wisconsin ID Law will Suppress Youth, Minority Vote
On May 25, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed off on a new law, Assembly Bill 7, that requires Wisconsin voters to show photo identification at the polls. Critics of …
Iranian Detention of US Activist, Journalist Nears Two-Year Mark
Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, two of three American hikers seized by Iranian authorities nearly two years ago. Shourd was released last September, but Bauer and fellow hiker Josh …