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‘Comienza una nueva carrera por las colonias en África’.’
Earlier this week, France sent its special forces to Cameroon in search of seven French tourists who were kidnapped in the north of the country on Tuesday. Paris accused the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram of being behind the abduction. On Thursday, the kidnapped tourists were reportedly found alive in an abandoned house in Nigeria. …
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La policía de Connecticut paga 3,5 millones de dólares tras matar a un hombre desarmado en una redada del equipo SWAT.
Three-and-a-half million dollars will be paid out to the family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a poorly-executed SWAT raid nearly five years ago. As part of a settlement in a case involving the 2008 death of 33-year-old Gonzalo Guizan, five towns in Fairfield County will pool their money to compensate the victim’s…
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El 401% de los estadounidenses ahora gana menos del salario mínimo de 1968.
You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains. This means the gains went…somewhere else. See if you can guess who got them? (Hint: it’s the 1 percent; this is one driver of the terrible income and…
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El salario mínimo sería de $21,72 por hora si hubiera aumentado con la productividad desde 1968.
Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The Center for Economic and Policy Research’s John Dewitt looked at what the minimum wage would be if…
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La mayoría de los complots terroristas en EE. UU. no son inventados por Al Qaeda, sino fabricados por el FBI.
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Africa Studio In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson (Ig Publishing, 2012). Antonio Martinez was…
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Obama levanta la prohibición de niños soldados en Yemen y el Congo.
Yemeni soldiers during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 4, 2011. (Hani Mohammed/AP Photo) By AVNI PATEL Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. military financing will continue to flow to Yemen and three other countries that recruit and use child soldiers, despite a 2008 U.S. law designed to restrict U.S. taxpayer funding of foreign militaries that enlist…
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La oposición siria, respaldada por potencias extranjeras, jura lealtad a Israel.
Leader of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition coalition Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib The leader of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, has pledged allegiance to the Israeli regime if he manages to form a “new regime in Syria.” In a recent interview with the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Khatib stated that Israel should not be worried…
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Estados Unidos mató a cientos de niños en Afganistán, según un nuevo informe; Estados Unidos rechaza el informe.
A United Nations committee says the US military is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children in Afghanistan over the past four years. A United Nations committee has accused the United States government of being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children in Afghanistan over the past four years. But the committee’s report…
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La policía canadiense se enfrenta a múltiples acusaciones de "abuso sexual" por parte de mujeres indígenas – HRW
Photographs of a 17-year old girl’s injuries after a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police repeatedly punched herwhile she was handcuffed in British Columbia in 2011.(Photo from hrw.org) Canada’s national police force stands accused of raping and sexually abusing aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia, Human Rights Watch has revealed in a…
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¿Dejarlo en manos del mercado?
For more than twenty years now, the “free market” has been the rallying cry of American politics. Conservatives sing its praises while occasionally betraying it when it suits their constituency, liberals won’t criticize it but claim that it needs to be fixed, and then you have the libertarians, for which the market is, for all…
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