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May Day Protests Span the Globe With Calls for Economic Justice, International Solidarity

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 02 (News Report) - Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Worker's Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout the United States. "This is brutal and dictatorial,” says Mariano, a member of Spain's General Union of Workers who denounced his country’s conservative government for recently announcing job cuts in the health and education sectors as well as tax increases. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages | Brooklyn Bureau | News & Journalism, Citizen Commentary & Multimedia

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Newsvine - AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NewsVine - By Martha Mendoza, AP National Writer,: Ravi Nessman from India, Charles Hutzler from China, Adriana Gomez Licon from Mexico. - Nov. 17 (Investigative Report) - In Mexico, the AP filed a query through a website and got all the information requested within two months. But in the U.S., the AP had to mail requests to six branches of the Justice and Homeland Security departments. After 10 months, 18 phone calls and 40 letters from the government, the AP ended up with two spreadsheets and a piece of paper with all names blanked out.

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Titanic Battle or Insider Trading? The S&P Downgrade and the Bilderbergers: All Part of the Plan?

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Global Research - By Ellen Brown - Aug. 22 (Investigative Report) - What just happened in the stock market? Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell by at least 400 points for four straight days, a stock market first. The worst drop was on Monday, 8-8-11, when the Dow plunged 624 points. Monday was the first day of trading after US Treasury bonds were downgraded from AAA to AA+ by Standard and Poor’s. But the roller coaster actually began on Tuesday, 8-2-11, the day after the last-minute deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling -- a deal that was supposed to avoid the downgrade that happened anyway five days later. The Dow changed directions for eight consecutive trading sessions after that, another first.

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JP Morgan Makes Big Bucks from Food Stamp Growth, Then Hires Workers in India with Our Tax Dollars

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - Jan. 23 (Special Report) - The JP Morgan executive in the interview below does his best to put a positive spin on all this, but it just seems really unsavory for a big Wall Street bank to be making so much money off of the suffering of tens of millions of Americans....

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Global Population Special Report: Amazing Photos From 'National Geographic'

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert Kunzig - Jan. 04 (Special Report) - By 2050 the total number [world's population] could reach 10.5 billion, or it could stop at eight billion--the difference is about one child per woman. UN demographers consider the middle road their best estimate: They now project that the population may reach nine billion before 2050--in 2045. The eventual tally will depend on the choices individual couples make when they engage in that most intimate of human acts, the one Leeuwenhoek interrupted so carelessly for the sake of science.

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Education: The virtual TA

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Saritha Rai - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - In what might have been inconceivable a few years ago, some cash-strapped American universities and overworked faculty are turning to outsourcing, a tactic fine-tuned by U.S. corporations to cut costs. In distant Kalimpong in northeastern India, army wife Bakshi is a virtual teaching assistant for EduMetry, a company based in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C.

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Over 40 laid-off at RDB, 21 resign

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Times - By Edmund Kagire - Apr. 21 (News) - Over 40 laid-off at RDB, 21 resign

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18.5 pc rise in Nepali workers leaving for jobs abroad

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

República - Apr. 18 (News) - Increasing demand of workers in the aftermath of the global financial crisis has lead to an upsurge in Nepali job seekers for overseas destinations. Latest data show a whopping 18.5% rise in first nine months of 2009/10 as compared to corresponding period last year.

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Is Globalization Affecting Worldwide Voter Turnout? | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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China's Global Shopping Spree

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tomdispatch.com - By Michael T. Klare - Apr. 01 (News Analysis) - More than that, anticipating the kind of voracious resource consumption that goes with anticipated future growth, and worried about the availability of adequate supplies, giant Chinese energy and manufacturing firms -- many of them state-owned -- have been on a veritable spending binge when it comes to locking down resource supplies for the twenty-first century. They have acquired oil fields, natural gas reserves, mines, pipelines, refineries, and other resource assets in a global buying spree of almost unprecedented proportions.

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Biotech firms outsource to Asia

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tom Abate - May. 18 (Special Report) - The global financial crisis has hurt biotechnology, an industry in which it can take a billion dollars and 10 years to create a marketable medicine. But a survey of worldwide industry trends suggests that the funding shortage hitting North American and European market leaders could benefit emerging biotech clusters in Singapore, India and China.

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The Nano lands in India

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Royal Ford - Mar. 24 (Special Report) - Tata is calling the Nano the "people's car," but I think that was long ago taken by a German outfit called Volkswagen. In fact, the Nano sounds very familiar in its presentation: 34 horsepower, engine in the rear, rear-wheel drive, non-collapsing steering wheel, no airbags, no rear seatbelts, no ABS, no traction control, no air conditioning, no power steering.

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War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Research - By Michel Chossudovsky - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline. British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) owned by Lebanon's Sabbagh and Koury families, were granted oil and gas exploration rights in a 25 year agreement signed in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority. The rights to the offshore gas field are respectively British Gas (60 percent); Consolidated Contractors (CCC) (30 percent); and the Investment Fund of the Palestinian Authority (10 percent). (Haaretz, October 21, 2007).

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The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Robert Weissman - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor's annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year. In the 20 years that we've published our annual list, we've covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We've reported on some really bad stuff - from Exxon's Valdez spill to Union Carbide and Dow's effort to avoid responsibility for the Bhopal disaster; from oil companies coddling dictators (including Chevron and CNPC, both profiled this year) to a bank (Riggs) providing financial services for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; from oil and auto companies threatening the future of the planet by blocking efforts to address climate change to duplicitous tobacco companies marketing cigarettes around the world by associating their product with images of freedom, sports, youthful energy and good health. But we've never had a year like 2008.

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