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By Shlomo Sand
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Rupert Murdoch is a surprisingly good tweeter, direct and revealing in his comments, but he is also the head of a media conglomerate, so when he loses his cool and fires off a shot at “[p]iracy leader” Google, it has reverberations beyond the nail salon.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons / Lynda Poulter (CC-BY-SA)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron made a good call Monday by declaring that no funds from U.K. taxpayers’ pockets should be funneled toward gifting Queen Elizabeth II with a shiny new $90 million yacht on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Flickr / e-MagineArt.com (CC-BY)
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The Obama administration is laying the legal groundwork to strongly encourage (read: enforce) more transparency between pharmaceutical companies and doctors by requiring drugmakers to divulge the details of their monetary exchanges with M.D.s for various services and perks.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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People often knock polls, but in the case of Jon Huntsman, the numbers didn’t lie. After trailing most candidates for the majority of the race, Huntsman has reportedly decided to quit the stump and endorse fellow Mormon and alleged moderate Mitt Romney. Updated
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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The Arab League and the rest of the international community seem at a loss to prevent rising tension and violence in Syria from driving the country into full-blown civil war.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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zoe J (CC-BY)
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In these days of dwindling budgets, the austerity thing can go too far: Police in Harrisburg, Pa., have been given the OK to shoot stray dogs rather than take them to local shelters.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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niallkennedy (CC-BY)
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A sunken housing market has turned foreclosure auctions into feeding grounds for the vultures of American capitalism. Low prices mean plenty of available buildings to be bought, fixed up and sold at a profit. Meanwhile, suffering evictees are nowhere to be seen, except for the rare occasions when they show up to protest or bid on the homes themselves.
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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ProPublica has created an easy-to-use database that lists the congressional supporters and opponents of two bills that threaten Internet freedom under the guise of strengthening copyright protections. Of the current 80 proponents and 29 contesters, where do your representatives stand?
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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Washington is pleased with Burma. The military-backed government instituted a series of human rights reforms, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and the release of allegedly hundreds of political prisoners, that allows the U.S. to do business with the strategically situated Asian country with reduced criticism.
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian reform leader, dropped out of the presidential race on Saturday, rebuking the military for failing to engender social conditions in which Egyptian democracy could be possible.
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane asked in a blog whether reporters should more aggressively challenge the truth of statements made by political figures in its news pages. Readers gave him an earful. (more)
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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In a bid to increase transparency and overcome some dreadful PR from recent years about certain components of its global supply chain, Apple Inc. posted a lengthy “2012 Progress Report” about labor practices, working conditions and company ethics on its main website Friday.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
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Footage purportedly showing four American soldiers urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters surfaced on YouTube on Wednesday. The desecration of dead combatants is a serious crime under the Geneva Conventions and U.S. military law.
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WeMeantDemocracy (CC-BY)
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The number of Americans living in poverty has grown by 27 percent, or 10 million people, since the beginning of the “Great Recession” in 2006, according to an Indiana University study. And because of continued cuts to welfare programs and an increase in new, poorly paid jobs, those figures will continue to rise.
Posted on Jan 12, 2012
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