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Daily Kos:
So the US Conference of Catholic Bishops care more about preventing women from having access to abortion--which is still legal, btw--than about providing healthcare access to millions and millions of the uninsured. Catholics for Choice don't agree: Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, said: "This is unconscio (Read More)
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The Guardian:
A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reportsRunners taking part in the annual Miami Triathlon this time last year were surprised to spot a familiar face crossing the finishing line. (Read More)
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Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them togetherWhen I began visiting Rwanda, in 1995, a year after the genocide, the country was still (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come.American economist James Tobin originally proposed the tax – levied at up to 1%, on foreign exchange transactions – in the 1970s, to tame damaging (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Members of the eurozone were quite right to suspect 'Anglo-Saxon capitalism'It was a somewhat chastened British government which hosted the meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of that new focus of global economic power, the Group of Twenty, last week.In the run-up to the meeting at St Andrew's on Fri (Read More)
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International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate changeA row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the world's poor and help developing countries tackle climate change.No sooner had the prime minister floa (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Society:
• Leak reveals cuts of £350m• Business fury over jobs planGordon Brown stands accused today of misleading the public over his much-vaunted plans to help young people through the recession. Leaked documents show the government is planning drastic cuts for its flagship plan to train a new generation of apprentices.Confidentia (Read More)
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Nobody benefits more from our emasculated MPs than tax-avoiding plutocrats and bonus banditsLuck rather than a conspiracy explains why the newspaper that broke the expenses scandal is the property of billionaire recluses, who prefer holing up in a Channel island fortress to paying the same taxes as the rest of us.The Observ (Read More)
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
General Stanley McChrystal fears Taliban will try to exploit British doubts about wisdom of the Afghan missionAmerica's top general in Afghanistan believes Britain's 9,000 troops should be removed out of "harm's way" because the Taliban will target them in the run- up to next year's general election, it was reported last ni (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
It is ironic that when Will Hutton (Comment) points out that the private sector cannot do everything, it is now regarded as controversial, almost counterintuitive.The previous, postwar consensus centred on a mixed economy when the deficiencies of one sector were remedied by the other. But this did not survive the onslaught (Read More)
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Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.The Bushes Instructed the mourning military base's commander that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service detail, Bush and his wife made the 30 mile trip unannounced from their ranc (Read More)
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New York Times:
Obama’s speechifying once gripped the nation. Not so much now. He may need his salesman’s tools more than ever.
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New York Times:
Until the Palestinians and Israelis are serious about the peace process, the United States should get out of the picture.
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New York Times:
Stimulus spending is a fraught topic, but we may need more of it to prevent a renewed downturn and create badly needed jobs.
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