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Trial Brings Attention to Corruption in the New Orleans Police Department
In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane …
Egyptian Counterrevolution Struggling for a Breakthrough
A vendor arranges Egyptian flags before a morning prayer service at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, July 11, 2011. Almost six months after the Egypt revolution that successfully saw the …
After Fukushima: Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds in Britain and Japan
With no end in sight to the world’s worst atomic power crisis in a quarter of a century, collusion between Japan’s nuclear industry and its supposedly neutral government watchdogs …
Aiding Insecurity: Four Years of Mexico’s Drug War
A Mexican federal police officer patrols the streets of Acapulco, Mexico, January 28, 2011. (Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas / The New York Times) Mexico's drug-trafficking organizations constitute a …
G20: Speculation and Agricultural Price Volatility
The G20 agriculture ministers dodged most of the tough issues in their meeting last month in Paris, leaving the heavy lifting on France’s ambitious G20 agenda to finance ministers …
Violence Against Migrant Women Won’t End After DSK Case
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former leader of the International Monetary Fund, appears in court for an arraignment over allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid in New York, May …
How Murdoch Reporters’ Bribes to British Cops Violate US Law
Rupert Murdoch. (Photo: David Shankbone / Flickr) Imagine you're a Fleet Street reporter at a British tabloid with a pocketful of cash. You meet a trusted source …
War With Iran? US Neocons Aim to Repeat Chalabi-Style Swindle
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. Appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on June 24, Bolton reiterated …
Congress and Its Colonialist Agenda
New members of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill, November 19, 2010. (Photo: Talk Radio News Service / Flickr) Up until the mid-20th century, Western attitudes regarding …
Why Banks Aren’t Lending: The Silent Liquidity Squeeze
John Councilman, president of AMC Mortgage, at his office in Fallston, Maryland, on July 13, 2010. (Photo: Mary F. Calvert / The New York Times) Where did …