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For years, banks and other companies handling foreclosures have turned to cheap labor to process the growing volume of foreclosures. At JPMorgan Chase, they were called “Burger King kids”—walk-in …
Obama Tells India That Pakistan Making Slow Progress on Terror
Mumbai — President Barack Obama on Sunday touched on the sensitive topic of Pakistan during a question-and-answer session with Indian students, defending the U.S. alliance with India's bitter rival …
An Alternative Environmental Future for Haiti
Haiti is famous around the world primarily for its problems, one being advanced ecological destruction. †However, as with its other problems, citizens - with international friends and the occasional …
Mexico: Tens of Thousands of Missing Central American Migrants
Mexico City - The last time Estela Domínguez of Mexico saw her daughter Estela Paz was in April 2006, when the young woman left home with the goal of …
Our Iraq War Helped Displace Millions – Who We Now Shut Out
By definition, they’re the people nobody wants. Conflict, disaster, persecution and other crises uprooted about 43 million people from their homes last year. Many millions were displaced by conflicts …
Mumbai and Obama’s Mission
United States President Barack Hussein Obama will begin his three-day tour of India on November 6, 2010, with a visit to the famed Taj Mahal Hotel of Mumbai (formerly …
Aung San Suu Kyi: How Her Release Could Shape Burma’s Political Future
Rangoon, Burma - A nation stunted by economic decline and political strife goes to the polls Nov. 7 under the gaze of its authoritarian rulers. The multiparty elections are …
The 7 Sleaziest Sexist Moments from the 2010 Elections
Rush Limbaugh played “Ding-Dong, the Witch Is Dead” on his show to celebrate Nancy Pelosi’s ouster earlier this week, and this typically boorish moment seemed to crystallize a dismal …
Our Big, Fat, Invisible Wars
In the final days of a midterm campaign, marked by hyper-bipartisanship; Tea Party warnings about how Obama was dragging America down the dark corridor of liberal fascism; an astounding …
“Strategy” Not Appropriate for Social Justice Movements
All warfare is based on deception. Hence when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must …