Capitalism: How it can benefit all Americans, not only greedy corporations
Posted by: Dava Castillo
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 17:32:51 -0700 | political-news
Capitalism is an economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution such as land, factories, communications and some transportation systems etc. are privately owned and operated in a competitive environment characterized by a tendency...
Obama needs to fire staff
Posted by:
PJesep
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 14:20:10 -0700 | political-news
President Barack Obama is languishing politically. He must shake up his team. Calling the three controversies now embattling the administration Nixonian are inaccurate, or at least an exaggeration. In addition, comments that his second term is derailed are premature. The...
IRS official pleads the 5th at US House hearing
Posted by: Dava Castillo
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 17:36:29 -0700 | political-news
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative political groups, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination Wednesday and declined to testify at a House hearing on the matter,...
U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
Source: The New York Times
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-22 17:45:32 -0700 | political-news
In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September...
North Korea sends...
Source: Arab News
Seoul :: South Korea | updated 2013-05-22 16:32:25 -0700 | political-news
A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing yesterday, with relations between the allies strained ahead of a China-US summit. Choe Ryong-Hae, director of the Korean People's Army politburo, is...
Fort Hood suspect seeks to fire Army attorneys
Source: The Boston Globe
Fort Hood :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 17:16:48 -0700 | political-news
Texas (AP) The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage says he wants to represent himself at his upcoming trial...Nidal Hasan is seeking to sever ties with his three Army attorneys...Tara Osborn, is to consider his...
4-nation Pacific Alliance trade bloc forges ahead
Source: Fox News
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-05-22 17:32:48 -0700 | political-news
Colombia The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the European Union as a model and aims to further...
City Room: With Whiskers in Common, Hasidim Court Hipsters
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 16:38:32 -0700 | political-news
Welcome to City Room City Room® is a news blog of live reporting, features and reader conversations about New York City...Send questions, suggestions or complaints by e-mail for prompt attention. Browse Posts by Borough Archive Recent Posts May 22 The...
Facebook posts: Suit filed over vet's detention
Source: Fox News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-22 15:48:03 -0700 | political-news
Va. A civil liberties group has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an ex-Marine, claiming his rights were violated when he was detained in a psychiatric facility after posting anti-government messages on Facebook. The Rutherford Institute's attorneys filed...
Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe
Source: The Boston Globe
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 13:59:21 -0700 | political-news
Va. (AP) A federal appeals court will allow a capital murder case to proceed against an accused drug kingpin from northern Virginia...Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned a federal judge in Norfolk who had ordered a halt to the...
European banks stop sending money to North Korea - aid groups
Source: Reuters
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-22 15:47:40 -0700 | political-news
Topics A woman walks past a sign of Bank of China at its branch in Beijing in this March 26, 2013 file photo. European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the...
New Paraguay leaders promise more free milk
Source: Fox News
Asunción :: Paraguay | updated 2013-05-22 15:02:36 -0700 | political-news
Paraguay Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack...
Investigation: Cruise officials didn't promptly report molestation
Source: United Press International
Nassau :: Bahamas | updated 2013-05-22 13:57:09 -0700 | political-news
Cruise officials didn't promptly report a young passenger's molestation, so a suspect evaded prosecution by Florida authorities, officials said...The incident wasn't reported to Florida authorities until the next day when the ship was at sea, an investigation by the television...
Appeals court limits labor board's lawlessness
Source: Washington Post
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 17:32:08 -0700 | political-news
The expressing of any views, argument, or opinion, or the dissemination thereof, whether in written, printed, graphic, or visual form, shall not constitute or be evidence of an unfair labor practice under any of the provisions of this [act], if...
Amnesty condemns abuse 'inaction'
Source: BBC
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-05-22 17:00:43 -0700 | political-news
Amnesty International has accused governments of using state sovereignty as an "excuse" for failing to intervene in emergencies such as in Syria. In its annual report, the human rights group also blames world leaders for prioritising immigration control over the...
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