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News in Brief: Doctors and State Employees on Strike in Portugal and Greece, and More …
Doctors and State Employees on Strike in Portugal and Greece Doctors in Greece have clashed with police in a three-hour work stoppage to protest the newest round …
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Gulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Disaster of April 20, 2010 (the “BP Oil Spill”) is, as the news sometimes tells us, causing grave damage to the waterways and shores, …
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What’s Behind the Obama Administration’s About Face Regarding Medical Marijuana?
Here was the Obama administration's well publicized position on medical marijuana, circa 2009 (via the Ogden memo to all United States attorneys): "The prosecution of significant traffickers of illegal …
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Filling in the Gaping Holes in WikiLeaks’ Guantanamo Detainee Files
A guard house at Delta Camp, a part of the prison facility at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 23, 2008. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / …
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As Housing Shortage Worsens, Tribes Forced to Use FEMA Trailers
Lack of adequate housing on Native American tribal lands has become so critical that tribes have been acquiring mobile homes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The shelters, meant …
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The IMF’s Switch in Time
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC, is captured during the session “Global Economic Outlook” at the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in …
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Torture Is Still Torture
It wasn't torture that revealed Osama bin Laden's hiding place. Finding and killing the world's most-wanted terrorist took years of patient intelligence gathering and dogged detective work, plus a …
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Pakistan’s Terror Ties at Center of Upcoming Chicago Trial
It may be years, if ever, before the world learns whether Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) helped hide Osama bin Laden. But detailed allegations of ISI …
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What Has Bin Laden’s Killing Wrought?
Pakistani police and locals gather outside the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 5, 2011. The head of Pakistan's Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, …
Phyllis Bennis: Listening to the People in the Arab World (Video)
Phyllis Bennis joined us by phone from Amman, Jordan to discuss the death of Bin Laden and its impact in the Arab world.