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Written by Robin Lloyd
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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Dear Toward Freedom Reader,
Every day journalists are being laid off at news organizations around the world, further narrowing the media’s coverage of events. Major stories go untold, and many parts of the world are completely ignored. Although cyberspace has opened up opportunities for more "citizen journalists," reliable reporting is in increasingly short supply. |
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Written by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
In the national debate about health care reform absolutely nothing makes less sense than the positive views of much of the public about private health insurers. There is no good reason to have positive views of private health insurers, the companies that have relentlessly increased the costs for very limited health insurance. |
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Written by Robert Weissman
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
 Security at IMF Headquarters April's G-20 meeting - involving the heads of state of 20 of the world's most economically powerful countries - failed to yield an agreement on increased European stimulus spending or on new global financial regulatory rules. But it did feature one overriding tangible agreement: A commitment to expand massively the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order to channel funds to developing countries rocked by the financial crisis. |
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Written by Benjamin Dangl
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
 Photo: Miguel Yuste, El Pais Worldwide condemnation has followed the coup that unseated President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras on Sunday, June 28. Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression. One protester outside the government palace in Honduras told reporters that if Roberto Micheletti, the leader installed by the coup, wants to enter the palace, "he had better do so by air" because if he goes by land "we will stop him." |
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Written by Ramzy Baroud
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
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 Carpet weavers in India One might be tempted to dismiss the recent findings of the US State Department on human trafficking as largely political. But do not be too hasty. Criticism of the State Department's report on trafficked persons, issued on June 16, should be rife. The language describing US allies' efforts to combat the problem seems undeserved, especially when one examines the nearly 320- page report and observes the minuscule efforts of these governments. |
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Written by Greg Grandin
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
In this interview history professor and author Greg Grandin talks about what led him to write his recent book, Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, the auto industry, US foreign policy, and the modern day parallels to this failed American utopian adventure in the Amazon. |
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Written by Anne Peterman and Orin Langelle
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
 Photo: Orin Langelle The U.S. government is set to approve a request from ArborGen, the genetically engineered (GE) tree research and development giant, for permission to plant 260,000 GE cold tolerant eucalyptus trees in 29 "field trials" across seven southern U.S. states. Approval of such a large-scale planting of these dangerous flowering GE forest trees in the U.S. is completely unprecedented. |
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