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EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT: The "Indignados" Still Have Wind in Their Sails

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Cleo Fatoorehchi - Feb. 06 (News) - EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT By Cléo Fatoorehchi AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Feb 6, 2012 (IPS) - Months of protest across the European Union, sparked by indignant youth demanding an end to the brand of free market capitalism that has blighted the continent with an unemployme

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Higher Education Hits a New Low

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Zofeen Ebrahim - Apr. 16 (News) - University students and teachers have taken to the streets in a bid to prevent provincial governments from taking over the reins of higher education in Pakistan.

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New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Kanya D'Almeida - Mar. 25 (News Report) - In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall Thursday, chanting "The people united will never be defeated!" As the contagious effects of democratic uprisings radiate from North Africa to North America, New York City's exploited workers and students are not about to let the opportunity for mass struggle pass them by.

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PERU: Women Sterilised Against Their Will Seek Justice, Again

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:19:31 -0700

Inter Press Service - Oct. 15 - PERU By Ángel Páez LIMA, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) - Poor, rural, Quechua-speaking women in the Peruvian province of Anta who were victims of a forced sterilisation programme between 1996 and 2000 have filed a new lawsuit in their continuing struggle for

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US: NGOs Condemn Merger of Immigration and Criminal Justice - IPS ipsnews.net

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Mounting Biodiversity Loss Poses Threat to Human Survival

Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Paul Virgo - May. 23 (Special Report) - When people talk about biodiversity loss, discussion often centres on the tragedy of animals like the tiger and the panda being in danger of extinction. It is as if the world were about to be deprived of precious parts of its heritage, perhaps comparable to works by Mozart or Shakespeare - sad yet not something that will affect our everyday existence. Unfortunately, this widely held vision is misguided.

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RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Focusing on Men to Combat Violence Against Women - IPS ipsnews.net

Sat, 15 May 2010 19:55:00 -0700

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Bold Plan for Maternal Health

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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ENVIRONMENT-INDONESIA: Solving Waste Woes Far from Easy

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Veby Mega Indah - Apr. 06 (News) - By running his illegal dumpsite, Nasrulloh believes he is doing the community good, helping the city government, doing his bit for the environment – while making money for himself as well.

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Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Gareth Porter - Mar. 08 (News Analysis) - It turns out, however, that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict.

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Mediators' Plan a Road Map to Afghanistan Peace?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Gareth Porter - Feb. 05 (News) - If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a "road map" to a political settlement drawn up by a group of ex-Taliban officials who have been serving as intermediaries between the two sides. read more

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Haiti: US Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Jim Lobe - Feb. 04 (News) - Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to cancelling all of the Caribbean country's multilateral debt. read more

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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Crisis Could Usher In Another World - IPS

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - Jan. 30 (Special Report) - Speaking at the debate on "Progress: What For and For Whom?" the economist and peace activist emphasised the "over-consumption and over-development" seen in some countries, and said the inhuman inequality that persists in the world is also unsustainable.

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US Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Thalif Deen - Dec. 31 (News Report) - When Yemen refused to vote in support of a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution against Iraq during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a visibly angry U.S. delegate turned to the Yemeni diplomat and said: "That will be the last time you will ever vote against a U.S. resolution." Washington's subsequent retaliation, in the aftermath of that negative vote, was predictable. The United States not only downgraded its relationship with Yemen but also cut off all military aid to a country once heavily armed with Soviet weapons.

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Fishing in the Sewer

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Cam McGrath - Dec. 31 (News Report) - After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia. "The fish were sleeping today," he jests. It has been years since the fish were 'awake', and even Abdel Malek's sanguine humour cannot hide his disappointment. He has been fishing the ancient river since he was old enough to walk and reckons he's spent more of his life on his six-metre-long wooden skiff than he has on dry land.

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Israeli War on Gaza: New Year Reopens Wounds of the Old

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Eva Bartlett - Dec. 30 (Special Report) - "Even now, I'm still so afraid for my children, afraid that another war will come. The UAVs (unmanned drones) are always over us, and often at night the helicopters come." In northern Gaza's Ezbet Beit Hanoun, families and friends of the Abd al- Dayem and Abu Jerrad families gather on Dec. 26, holding a candlelight vigil in remembrance of their sons, wives and husbands killed during a series of Israeli flechette (dart-bomb) attacks a year back.

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Doors Opening for Carbon Tax

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Julio Godoy - Dec. 30 (Special Report) - With the chance for a global climate change treaty on hold, a tax on greenhouse gases could be an effective alternative for discouraging the activities that create emissions, say economists and environmentalists.

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US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Gareth Porter - Dec. 29 (News) - U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

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The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Gareth Porter - Dec. 19 (News Analysis) - In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades.

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Cattle, the Ignored Predator

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Mario Osava - Dec. 12 (Special Report) - Because of its effect on the environment, cattle must be given the same priority in global agendas as nuclear weapons, wars and, in particular, climate change, says Brazilian activist João Meirelles Filho, author of two books on Amazon deforestation.

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Obama Had Rejected His Own Speech's Surge Rationale

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Gareth Porter - Dec. 02 (News Analysis) - during September and October, Obama sought to fend off escalation in Afghanistan in part by suggesting through other White House officials that the interests of the Taliban were no longer coincident with those of al Qaeda. In fact, intense political maneuvering between Obama and the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, over the latter's troop increase request revolved primarily around the issue of whether the defeat of the Taliban was necessary to U.S. anti-al Qaeda strategy.

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State Department Backpedals on Landmine Treaty

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Jim Lobe - Nov. 27 (News) - Human rights and disarmament activists had reacted with outrage Wednesday to Tuesday's announcement by State Department spokesman Ian Kelly that the review had concluded and that Washington "would not be able to meet our national defence needs, nor our security commitments to our friends and allies if we sign the [landmine] convention".

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Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Eli Clifton - Oct. 22 (News) - But an IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Some of these organisations have tied the origins of Palestinian nationalism to Nazi ideology, and suggested that a vast Muslim conspiracy - in a similar vein to the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion - is mobilising to undermine the U.S. constitution and impose Sharia law.

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Earth's Life Support Systems Failing

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Stephen Leahy - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. [A loggerhead turtle. Biodiversity is not just weird-looking animals and pretty birds. It is the diversity of life on Earth that comprises the ecosystems that provide vital services, including climate regulation, food, fibre, clean water and air. (Photo: Damien du Toit; Creative Commons License)]A loggerhead turtle. Biodiversity is not just weird-looking animals and pretty birds. It is the diversity of life on Earth that comprises the ecosystems that provide vital services, including climate regulation, food, fibre, clean water and air. (Photo: Damien du Toit; Creative Commons License) The last big promise to act was in 2003, when government ministers from 123 countries committed to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

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Democrats Disgruntled as Obama Fails to Deliver

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Eli Clifton - Oct. 08 (News Report) - Since before taking office, U.S. President Barack Obama has been no stranger to being in the crosshairs of Republican pundits who have accused him of everything from bring a "secret communist" to a tax-and-spend liberal who would oversee huge expansions in the federal government. But a growing voice of criticism here in Washington is Democrats who feel the president has failed to deliver on a large number of the campaign promises he made during the run-up to the November election.read more

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