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Double Standard: BP and Bhopal
When President Barak Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion fund be set up for victims of the Gulf oil spill, the people of India were furious. …
ALBA: How Much of a Turn to the Left in Latin American Governance and Economic Policy?
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) was established on December 14, 2004 by Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro. Tired of failed neo-liberal initiatives and Washington’s …
Obama Speech on Immigration
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Prisoners of the States
A new book, “The Enemy In Our Hands,” looks at how America has treated - and mistreated - prisoners of war through history resonates in the age of terror. …
EPA Says More Testing Needed to Know Dispersants’ Impacts
Washington - The first round of government tests of the chemical dispersants that are being used to break up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico found …
News in Brief: Taliban Say They Are Winning the War in Afghanistan, and More
The Taliban has told the BBC that they are winning the war in Afghanistan and would refuse to negotiate with the coalition forces after US and British commanders suggested …
Cuba Travel Ahead for Americans? House Committee Advances Measure
Washington - Americans sunning on Cuban beaches and selling farm products without restrictions to the Cuban government – would such unfettered Cuba travel and trade boost prospects for freedom …
Counterinsurgency Down for the Count in Afghanistan
President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working. So said a parade of Afghanistan watchers during the flap over war commander General Stanley McChrystal’s firing. But what does that phrase, so …
Confirmation Wars: Why Talk of Elena Kagan’s “Judicial Impartiality” Is Missing the Point
Critics of the Senate's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are right to complain that the proceedings have degenerated into little more than political theater and grandstanding. …
UK to Repatriate Kids to War-Torn Homes
Amid immigration stresses, Britain plans to turn asylum-seekers away. London, UK - Amid growing controversy over the treatment of refugees, the British government plans to begin forcibly returning child …