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  • The final straw with Citi
    Instead of scaling back risky hedge fund-style trading, Citi is doing just the opposite. And that raises big questions about why the federal...

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  • Netanyahu says West Bank barrier to stay for now
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    Netanyahu made the comments after Israel's Maariv newspaper said Palestinian officials had pressed Washington to push for the barrier to be...

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  • Changing the historical narrative

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    Israel’s Education Ministry has ordered the removal of the word ‘nakba’ — Arabic for the “catastrophe” of the...

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  • Speakers Call Attacks on Civilians War Crimes and Possibly Crimes...

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    An international meeting on the question of Palestine, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People...

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  • Budget 2009-2010: Fighting shy of Mobilizing resources, fighting...

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    “The main objective of any tax system is to raise revenues to fund Government expenditures”. So begins Annex-12 to the Receipts Budget...

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  • Why disinvest when profits are booming?
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    Disinvestment is back. Policy-makers believe that there is no reason to oppose it, since at least 51 per cent of the equity holding in the public...

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  • Policy or Sycophancy?
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    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has done it again. He has changed policy on Pakistan with just one meeting with Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza...

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  • Israel to demolish 23 illegal settlements in one day
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    Israel is planning to remove 23 "illegal outposts" from the West Bank in the course of a single day in response to mounting US demands that...

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  • The Real Sell Out
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    New Delhi is under pressure to get its nuclear act together in time for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's scheduled visit to India on July 20-...

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  • Obama's approval rating drops below 50% on key issues such...

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    Public support for Barack Obama is slipping on the major issues likely to define his presidency, particularly healthcare reform with approval...

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  • Drug industry, Pfizer lead in health lobbying

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    The drug industry's trade group and one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies reported spending more money than other health care...

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  • Gates announces temporary increase in U.S. Army
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    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a temporary increase in the size of the U.S. Army that would boost the force by up to 22,000...

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  • U.S. report urges changes in Afghan detainee policy
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    A U.S. military report on detainees in Afghanistan calls for changes in both U.S. and Afghan prison systems to prevent Islamist radicalization behind...

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  • The Profiteers of Suffering

    One, run away screaming in fear.  Two, stay and fight back and bring to justice those who have corrupted our democracy.  ...

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  • Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?
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    Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of...

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