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Pachamama and Progress: Conflicting Visions for Latin America’s Future
Miners in PotosÃ, Bolivia set off sticks of dynamite as cold winter winds zipped through the city, passing street barricades, protests, hunger strikers and an occupied electrical plant. These …
Martin Luther King, Jr. | I Have a Dream (Video)
Body Scanners in Courtroom, on Street, Continue to Raise Privacy Concerns
Despite previous assurances by federal agencies that images from body scanners were not saved or recorded, fears of indiscriminate scanner use rise as the US Marshal Service admits that …
Hawks Box in Obama on Afghan War
Just back from Afghanistan, Marine Commandant, Gen. James Conway held a news conference to add his voice to the Pentagon campaign to disparage the July 2011 date President Barack …
Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis
Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. Faced with increasing difficulty in selling …
Our Weird and Wanton Wars
Many citizens in Britain are puzzled. Why do we always seem to be at war? How can this come about? What does it mean? At the same time, we …
From Churchill to Petraeus
"I have not become her Majesty's first minister to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire." It was hard not to remember this proud declaration of Winston Churchill, …
Motive Behind Slaying of 72 Mexican Migrants Still Unclear
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderon on Friday accused the gunmen who killed 72 illegal migrants in northern Mexico this week of "incalculable savagery" as his government attempted to …
Speculation and the New Commodity Price Crisis: Separating the Wheat From the Chaff
Wheat prices had been climbing prior to the August 5 announcement of a Russian wheat export ban. Kansas Board of Trade wheat futures contracts had gone from $4.92 a …