People
Kentaro Toyama
UC Berkeley researcher writing a book tentatively titled =A Different Kind of Growth: Wisdom in Global Development=
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Open file 3951
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Country ... USA
Economic Dynamics
Paul Krugman ... The Mostly Solved Deficit Problem
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Open file 3952
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Country ... Saudi Arabia
Still in the 'dark ages'
Anger at Saudi beheading of Sri Lankan maid ...
Human rights groups condemn execution of Rizana Nafeek, convicted of killing an infant in her care in 2005.
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Open file 3953
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Country ... USA
The Jewish Lobby
MJ Rosenberg ... Obama defeats the Israel Lobby ...
As long as Israel's security is not put at risk - 'and no president would put it at risk' - the president will prevail.
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Open file 3954
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Women's Issues
Violence against women
The fearless fight for women's freedom ...
If India is committed to redressing violence against women, it must 'recognise feminist voices', note authors.
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Open file 3955
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Organizations ... UN
Attacking the UN Special Rapporteur
Phyllis Bennis ... Human Rights Watch: Time to stand with human rights defenders ...
It is disappointing to see HRW's unwillingness to stand with those who are working to promote and defend human rights.
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Open file 3956
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Ideas
Peer to Peer Society
Michel Bauwens ... 'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation ...
The Occupy Wall Street movement is a model for a new economic paradigm, in which value is first created by communities.
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Open file 3957
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Country ... USA
Guns
Rachel Maddow ... Good program about the gun conversation in the United States after Newtown killings including data showing the surprising weakness of NRA
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Open file 3958
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Country ... USA
Washington DC
TRMS ... On Richard Nixon born 100 years ago today and the way Washington works, then and now
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Open file 3959
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Energy
Dangerous drilling in the Arctic
Energy industry caught short ... again. It is not that engineers cannot do what they do well ... it is that profits for investors often gets in the way of doing what is right.
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Open file 3960
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Technology
Mobile Phones
AJ Stream ... A low-tech revolution ...
Are simple phones smarter than you think?
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Open file 3961
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Finance
National Debt
Beyond the fiscal cliff ...
What are the global implications of US debt and just what are the politics behind the economics?
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Open file 3962
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Country ... USA
Guns
January 10, 2012 ... NRA Blasts Biden After Meeting on Guns ... Vice President Joe Biden Meets With National Rifle Association
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Open file 3963
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Country ... Greece
Politics and Finance
Alexis Tsipras: Frontline of a financial war ...
The leader of the Greek opposition on how his country has become a 'debt colony' forced to follow 'criminal' policies.
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Open file 3964
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Country ... USA
Presidential Politics
Obama Has One Last Chance To Become A Great President
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Open file 3965
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Energy
Fracking for Gas
January 2013 ... What Could Shale Mean for UK Economy and Employment?
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Open file 3966
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Country ... USA
Guns
Gabrielle Giffords Anti-Gun Violence Group Looks To Raise $20 Million Ahead Of 2014 Election
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Open file 3967
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Country ... USA
Jobs
Demos ... 2012 Ends with a Whimper for Millennial Employment
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Open file 3968
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Country ... USA
Workplace conditions
Demos ... High Profits, Low Wages, and the Growth of Inequality
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Open file 3969
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Country ... USA
Political Leadership
The Logic of Hagel ... Why Obama wanted an
improbable fellow traveler at the pentagon.
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Open file 3970
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Initiatives
EpiCollect
An initiative of Imperial College in London to use mobile devices to collect geo-specific data
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Open file 3971
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Technology
Internet ... Twitter
Infograph on the amazing growth of Twitter
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Open file 3972
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Country ... Ukraine
Multiple issues
Jeff Mowatt ... Social Enterprise in Ukraine. and a litany of problems
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Open file 3973
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People
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege
The famed linguist and political activist says intellectuals have a moral duty to hold centres of power to account.
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Open file 3974
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Organizarions
International Council for Science and the Environment (ICSE)
Governor Richardson Elected as Chairman of the International Council for Science and the Environment
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Open file 3975
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People
Jack Lew
Danny Schechter ... Meet Jack Lew, the insider's outsider ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same with Obama's nomination of Jack Lew to replace Tim Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury
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Open file 3976
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People
Paul Krugman
AJE One on One ... Paul Krugman
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Open file 3977
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Agriculture
Genetic Modification
Charlotte Silver ... Monsanto versus the people ...
Many farmers have decided to forego growing corn and soybeans due to the 'inevitable contamination that will result'.
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Open file 3978
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Country ... USA
Media
Cultural diffusion of news: New blood in the American News Media ...
Rather than shunning it, the United States should welcome Al Jazeera to its local media.
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Open file 3979
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Country ... Libya
Post war reconstruction
Transforming Libya's ungoverned spaces through development ...
One of Libya's immediate concerns must be the economic and social development of the Fezzan region.
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Open file 3980
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Country ... USA
Intelligence
Tom Engelhardt ... The US intelligence community's New Year's wish
In recent years, the US intelligence community has been one of Washington's major growth industries.
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Open file 3981
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Country ... Senegal
Casamance
Senegal rebels alienate those they fight for ...
A long-running movement for the independence of Casamance in southern Senegal is unlikely to succeed.
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Open file 3982
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Metrics
Evaluation
Ushahidi Haiti Project Evaluation Final Report
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Open file 3983
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Jobs ... Youth Unemployment
Failed Education
Roshan, Amani Institute ... Building a Social Sector Jobs Economy
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Open file 3984
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Sports
Doping
Oprah Speaks About Lance Speaking About Doping
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Open file 3985
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Extractive Industries
Indigenous Communities
Indigenous-communities-extractive-sector-briefing.pdf from The Ethical Corporation UK August 2012'
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Open file 3986
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Country ... USA
Guns
Don Hazen ... Executive Editor, AlterNet on America's Gun and Violence Crisis
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Open file 3987
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People ... John Mackey
Health Obamacare
Whole Foods CEO: Obamacare Is 'Like Fascism' ...
Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey would like to revise a previous accusation that Obamacare is a form of socialism.
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Open file 3988
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Companies
Starbucks
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround ... discussion from March 2011
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Open file 3989
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Country ... Mali
Mali's armed groups
Making sense of Mali's armed groups ...
Al-Qaeda gets the most attention, but local groups and ethnic fighters are part of a complicated mix of instability.
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Open file 3990
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Country ... Mali
Fighting the rebels
France launches air strikes on Mali rebels ... Al-Qaeda-linked fighters pushed back from key town, as French pilot dies and Hollande increases domestic security.
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Open file 3991
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Country ... Mali
The Rebellion in the North
French troops launch ground combat in Mali ...
Soldiers move towards Ansar al-Dine strongholds 2km from centre of Diabaly, as West African forces prepare to deploy.
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Open file 3992
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Region ... North Africa
Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb
Profile: Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb ... Al-Qaeda in North African traces its roots to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s.
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Open file 3993
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Country ... USA
Guns
Rachel Maddow summarizes the initiatives that President Obama has taken after the Sandy Hook massacre
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Open file 3994
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Country ... Algeria
Hostages
Rachel Maddow reporting on what has happened in Algeria today ... January 17, 2013
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Open file 3995
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Country ... USA
Government Incompetence
Rachel Maddow talks about the Sandy Relief Bill in Congress
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Open file 3996
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Country ... USA
Guns
Rachel Maddow about the New York gun control initiative
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Open file 3997
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Country ... USA
Government Finance
Rachel Maddow and the debt ceiling ... including the Constitution
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Open file 3998
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Country ... USA
Misinformation from high places
Rachel Maddow on the story that made the USA go to war with Iraq ... is the same thing going to happen with Syria ... and then what about Mali
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Open file 3999
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Country ... USA
Elections and the Right to Vote
Rachel Maddow ... Will the rules about elections get changed in every State in the Union
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