WASHINGTON – Civil society groups are pressuring the World Bank to disinvest from private water companies, saying that privatising ownership and management of this natural resource has failed to improve access to clean drinking water. The World Bank is subsidising private profiteering from an essential resource by lending public money to private corporations that manage …
The administration of President Barack Obama announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending “credible progress” toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department said Washington was suspending deliveries of big-ticket weaponry, including tanks, warplanes and attack helicopters, that make up much of the 1.3 …
Members of the Elsipogtog First Nation are declaring a people’s victory after a Canadian judge on Monday overruled an energy company’s push for a permanent injunction on protests against fracking exploration in New Brunswick. Despite last week’s violent police crackdown on their fracking blockade, the group is celebrating the ruling and vowing to continue their …
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WASHINGTON – After a drone strike had reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud Nov. 1, the spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council declared that, if true, it would be “a serious loss” for the terrorist organisation. That reaction accurately reflected the Central Intelligence Agency’s argument for the strike. But the back story of …
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski claimed Friday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE’s campaign lobbied to have the “Morning Joe” …
As the fate of the Arctic 30 protesters has become a point of international outcry, their message—when they staged their peaceful action atop a Russian drilling platform—lives on: We must “Save the Arctic.” Validating the environmentalists’ warning that gas and oil drilling in Arctic waters is a clear threat to the pristine wilderness, an oil …
A Washington Post investigation into the world of hospice care published Thursday found that what was initially intended to be a peaceful end-of-life alternative led by religious and community organizations, has now evolved into a $17 billion for-profit industry ripe with scams and abuse. Hospice care, which focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill …
Major manufacturing and business groups on Tuesday urged a court here to roll back a new U.S. regulation that would soon require major manufacturers to ensure that their global supply chains are free of minerals used to fund violence in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. Yet the previous day, Intel, the major computer …
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