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Indian Gang-Rape Victim’s Attackers Charged With Murder, Protesters Push for Broader Women’s Rights
Five men have been formally charged in India with the kidnapping, gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus.
Robert Pollin: Economic Outlook for 2013
Bob Pollin: With austerity policies in Europe and the USA and slow down in China and India, 2013 needs innovative policies or more recession is likely.
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We Call This Progress
Roy spoke at the Earth at Risk conference on the misuses of democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion.
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Fear of Rape Stalks Indian Women
Huge numbers of women and even school children have braved police batons, water cannons and teargas shells in a wave of public fury against India's rape epidemic.
Evidence in Delhi Embassy Bombing Suggests Journalist Was Framed
In “The Delhi Car Bombing: How the Police Built a False Case”, a three-part series beginning today, award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter dissects the Delhi police accusation against an …
Don’t Pay Polluters
Paying firms not to pollute gives rise to a perverse incentive.
WikiLeaks Sheds Light on Paul Ryan’s Questionable Human Rights Stance
While Paul Ryan's economic policy is widely known, his foreign policy views, which appear to prioritize economic and political gains over human rights, often slip under the radar.
Trafficked Into Tragedy: Abuse of Immigrant Workers In Afghanistan and Iraq
On every military base in Iraq and Afghanistan exists an economy sustained by immigrant workers. For transportation, construction, food services, security and more, the United States government relies on …
Beyond Nuclear Denial
How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World
I’d Rather Not be Anna
If what we're watching on TV is indeed a revolution, then it has to be one of the more embarrassing and unintelligible ones of recent times. For now, whatever …