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Education and Behavior in Israel and Palestine
Part I – Education as Indoctrination
Is Capitalism Doomed?
New York - The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A …
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Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way
Against a Congress where zealously rich people-friendly conservatives hold the upper hand, how much can a President of the United States committed to greater equality realistically hope to accomplish? …
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Chile’s Student Rebels: Views From the Trenches
Radio Toma, loosely translated as “Occupation Radio,” broadcasts non-stop information about the protests being staged in front of the University of Chile’s main building – literally a stone’s throw …
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Read the Embarrassing Hacking Allegations That News Corp. Redacted
A journalist listens to the live broadcast testimony by Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, outside Portcullis House, where they were testifying, in London, on July 19, 2011. Murdoch …
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GOP Mission Accomplished
Tea Party Republicans showed what stubbornness and working on behalf of organized money can accomplish as they forced President Obama and the Democrats to knuckle under on the debt …
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Famine in Somalia Stymied by Access
Washington, Aug 2 (IPS) - While an estimated 12.4 million people linger on the brink of starvation in the Great Horn of Africa, U.S. officials and world relief agencies …
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Kansas Seeks Federal Grant for Program to Promote Marriage
While turning down one federal handout last week, the administration of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback was applying for a different one. No, thanks: $31.5 million for implementing …
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More Bay of Pigs Documents Declassified by CIA
Freshly released CIA documents on the Bay of Pigs invasion provide new details on the confusion, mixed messages and last-minute changes in plans that ultimately doomed the mission. …
Tradition Trumps the Treaty: Bolivia Repeals its Ban on Coca
On June 29, 2011, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Aymara Indian president, withdrew his country from the United Nation’s (UN) 1961 Vienna Convention on Narcotic Drugs. His decision was based …