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WikiLeaks Releases State Department Cables
Editor's Note: The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel have published stories this afternoon revealing details of the State Department cables.
The Naked Truth About Capital Gains
When it comes to taxes on capital gains, the emperor suddenly has no clothes. He's been stripped bare, in bipartisan fashion, by the co-chairs of President Obama's fiscal commission. …
Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, Politics and Power
Reconstructing Haiti is not about buildings, projects or money. It's about power, about who gets to control what the future Haiti looks like. Redistributing power and creating a new …
Grasslands Preserve the Lonely Prairie
West from Sioux Falls, hundreds of miles of rolling South Dakota corn eventually morph into one of this country’s largest remaining national grasslands, a portion of what is now …
Economic Boom Worsened Deindustrialization of Least Developed Countries
Geneva - Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. …
Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Policy to Restrict Food to Gaza
Documents, whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year, have been released after a legal battle led by Israeli human rights group, Gisha. The documents …
With US-South Korea War Games, a Signal to North Korea
Washington - The joint military exercises the US will conduct with South Korea's navy on Sunday, off the Korean peninsula in the Yellow Sea, are taking on added significance …
Next Chapter in the “Republican War Against Women“
Republican women have become a not-so-subtle weapon for breaking apart the Democratic coalition, grounded in the women's vote, that gave Democrats control of the House and Senate in 2006 …
Fear of Violence in Haiti as Elections Begin
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — When her husband ran for president in 1987, Mirlande Manigat saw Haiti implode in violence: Troops massacred voters on election day. He later won the election, …