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Chile’s Student Rebels: Views From the Trenches
Protesters outside the University of Chiless main building, August 8. (Photo: Fernando Mandujano) Radio Toma, loosely translated as “Occupation Radio,” broadcasts non-stop information about the protests being …
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Downsizing Sprawlopolis: Flabby City, Fit City
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (twice voted America's Most Livable City) shifted their property tax off buildings and onto land. (Photo: dougtone) The obese American is not just a person; …
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Better This World: the Imaginary Terrorists
“We had to absolutely prepare for a catastrophic terrorism incident,” says an FBI Special Agent involved in planning security for the 2008 Republican Convention, “and the planning ideology that …
Bipartisan “Super Committee” Turns to Cutting Deficit with “Extraordinary” Powers
The bipartisan “super committee” tasked with finding a way out of the U.S. debt crisis has been established, but what can we expect? On Thursday, House Democratic leader Nancy …
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Pakistan: Gem of a Plan Against Taliban
Peshawar - Mining gems and other valuable minerals may provide, the Pakistan government hopes, alternate careers to militancy in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), bordering Afghanistan. …
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How to Do the Right Thing in a System That Is Wrong?
A summer evening. 1990. Perfect weather. My wife and I are with Hungarian friends, eating at a sidewalk cafĂ© on a tree-lined street in Budapest. They’re troubled. …
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Twenty Reported Killed in Afghan Suicide Attack
Kabul, Afghanistan - Twenty people were killed in a suicide attack Sunday on the governor’s compound in Chaharikar in the central province of Parwan, Afghan officials said. …
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New Iran Sanctions Could Bring Unintended Blowback
Washington - A new Congressional push to sanction Iran's Central Bank is aimed at reducing Iranian oil revenues, but could backfire and hurt the global economy. …
The Drug-War Femicides
(Image: JR / Truthout) Barcelona - The number of women murdered is increasing in most of Central America and Mexico. In some countries, such as Honduras, the …
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Big Business Has Been Very Good to Mitt Romney
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives on stage for an event at Keiser University's Sarasota campus, in Sarasota, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New …