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Rutgers Center Helps Women Enter Politics
The Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers trains and encourages women to run for office. ...
The GOP Has Turned a Major Election into an Episode of the Mommy Wars
The Sarah Palin saga has turned an election that should have been about economic and foreign policy into a culture war of the Real vs. the Elites....
INDIA/US: Nuclear Waiver - Blow to Non-Proliferation
NEW DELHI, Sep 8 (IPS) - The special waiver granted to India by the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) from its nuclear trade rules is being seen as a massive setback to the cause of global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. ...
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Click Here to Plant a Tree
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 7 (Tierramérica) - It has become fashionable in Latin America to pursue initiatives towards "zero carbon", neutralising the climate-changing greenhouse gases produced by industry, commercial aviation and even the football World Cup -- and along with it, atoning for the environmental sins of polluters. ...
Post-Referendum Conjuncture
?Summing up the aims of the new regime, Villarroel uttered his most memorable refrain: ?We are not enemies of the rich, but we are better friends of the poor.' This impossible pledge to favor the poor without estranging the rich ? couched in a language of intimate ties ? encapsulates the military populist's ambitious but doomed reformism.? Thus writes historian Laura Gotkowitz of Colonel Gualberto Villarroel's government in the early 1940s. [1] - Globalization, resistance, immigration ...
Exposing Five Dangerous Lies in McCain's Big Speech
McCain's falsehoods on health care, oil companies, trade, taxes and worker training were egregious and covered up his pro-corporate positions....
Breeding Envy: Do You Need to be a Millionaire to Have Kids?
Many parents are consumed by an ever-increasing list of things they should be but aren't buying for their kids....
McCain's Palin Gambit: Are Americans Weary of the Culture Wars?
Sarah Palin's acceptance speech was heavy on rhetoric but light on substance. But ginning up the culture war may not work this time around....
Obama's Biden Pick Signals 'More of the Same' Stupid Drug Policies
Joe Biden authored the laws establishing the White House drug czar and random drug testing of public employees, among others. ...
Five Women Buried Alive -- and the Media Ignore It
Why is it that we get so outraged over war but look the other way when women and girls are beaten and murdered in the name of tradition? ...
On Top of Jail Time, Prisoners Now Face Fees and Surcharges
Prisoners across the country are facing court fees, arrest fees and booking fees in addition to their sentences -- and states are raking in the cash....
AGRICULTURE-MALAWI: Going Against the Grain on Subsidies
LILONGWE, Sep 5 (IPS) - In each of the past three growing seasons, the family of Bernadette Banda, in Chidambo village in the central region of Malawi, has doubled the maize harvest from the family plot, thanks to a government input subsidy programme....
Five Women Buried Alive -- and the Media Ignore It
Why is it that we get so outraged over war but look the other way when women and girls are beaten and murdered in the name of tradition? ...
RIGHTS: Swazi Law And Custom Under Pressure
MBABANE, Sep 6 (IPS) - When the women's movement in the southern African kingdom of Swaziland took to the streets in August to challenge what they called extravagance by the royal family, Swazi traditionalists were livid....
Q&A: "We Will Write About Them"
KANO, Sep 6 (IPS) - While formal publishing companies in Nigeria languished through the economic crises that accompanied the structural adjustment programmes of the late 1980s and early 1990s, young Hausa writers began writing about their lives and contemporary problems they faced. Bypassing formal publishers, they self-published their novels, often with the help of a writers' cooperative....
One Fifth of Iraq Funding Goes to Private Contractors
If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the year....
As Vets Take to the Streets to Protest the War, McCain Snubs IVAW at the RNC
"War hero" McCain voted against healthcare funding for veterans in 2003, '04, '05, '06 and '07. Now veterans are confronting him on his record....
Towards a New American Isolationism
Despite the glitter that surrounded both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the messages coming to Asia from the two events were very different. - Globalization, resistance, immigration ...
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G8 leaders ready to backtrack on Africa aid
Please find below an article from the Financial Times concerning a possible backtrack of the G8 countries, which includes Canada, on their promised help on Africa aid...
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"Celebrating National Volunteer Week, April 27th - May 3rd 2008"
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April 27th, 2008