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Revealed: global super-rich has at least $21 trillion hidden in...
At least $21 trillion of unreported private financial wealth was owned by wealthy individuals via tax havens at the end of 2010. This sum is...
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Blacking out Truth About the Two Black outs
The Power Ministry and Power Grid -- squarely responsible for the failure of the grid on two successive days 30th and 31st July -- have been very...
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Mexico's Movement for Real Democracy
“We are the children of the ideals you couldn’t kill.”
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Grid Collapses: An Early Warning of the Crisis in the Power...
The Northern Grid collapse in the early hours of 30th July and again the next day, this time taking down the Eastern and the North-eastern Grid as...
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Batman, The Dark Knight Rises...and Occupy Wall Street Falls
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Algeria: The Dilemma of Timbuktu's Salafi 'Emirate...
Algeria is coming under significant foreign pressure as it is pushed toward military intervention in North Mali in an attempt to eliminate religious...
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Homeward Journeys
Home. The word is used so casually by most of us. What the word stands for is also easy enough to identify. A house or a room; a village or a city or...
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Running on Empty: U.S. biofuels policies set to reach their...
I’m as cynical as the next policy wonk, but sometimes even I am surprised at the perverse outcomes of some of those policies. Take the bizarre...
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The Military Solution The Lessons Washington Can't Draw From...
Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us -- less than 1% --...
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Post-Coup Paraguay: An Interview with Fernando Lugo
The left-leaning bishop Fernando Lugo was elected in 2008 as President of Paraguay. With his election, 61 years of rule by the conservative Colorado...
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Russia and China Stops UN Security Council Resolution
Syria continues to be in the public eye with a bomb blast that killed three senior public functionaries (now four) and the west-backed UK resolution...
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Will Israel Do It?
Israel and its backers have been hinting at possible military intervention in Syria on the pretext of preventing the transfer of its chemical weapons...
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The Middle East Needs Dialogue not War
“Dialogue is the strategy of the brave.” This is the striking phrase I heard from the mouth of Norway’s Foreign Minister, Jonas...
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, America's Shadow Wars in Africa
Here’s an odd question: Is it possible that the U.S. military is present in more countries and more places now than at the height of the Cold...
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Obama’s Scramble for Africa Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the...
They call it the New Spice Route, an homage to the medieval trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, even if today’s “spice...