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As Homeless Pack Shelters, Storage Brokers Seek Their Stuff

A homeless man sits on the side of the road. (Photo by Julie Jordan Scott) Two years after the city’s Human Resources Administration vowed to save money by finding a single company to provide storage services for homeless New Yorkers, it continues to force clients to find their own facilities. With the city’s homeless population now at record […]

Gianna Palmer
بواسطة Gianna Palmer
Homeless - Photo by Julie Jordan Scott

Two years after the city’s Human Resources Administration vowed to save money by finding a single company to provide storage services for homeless New Yorkers, it continues to force clients to find their own facilities. With the city’s homeless population now at record levels, vying to store their possessions is a booming business. Enter HRA.

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Privatizing Water In The US: Billions Spent On Public Utilities Diminish Citizen Control

In this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo, houses located in the Pocket Area of Sacramento, Calif., are seen along the Sacramento River. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file) (MintPress) — Private equity firms have raised an estimated $186 billion  to purchase public water and sewer facilities across the U.S., a trend that environmentalists and community members believe is […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
In this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo, houses located in the Pocket Area of Sacramento, Calif., are seen along the Sacramento River. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

(MintPress) — Private equity firms have raised an estimated $186 billion  to purchase public water and sewer facilities across the U.S., a trend that environmentalists and community members believe is endangering citizen control of water supplies. A report released earlier this week by Food and Water Watch, a public interest organization, contends

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Military Contractor CEOs Rank Highest Among Businesses

In this Feb. 15, 2008 file photo, a contractor is silhouetted while assembling model planes in the exhibition booth of Northrop Grumman at the site of the Singapore Airshow. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) (MintPress) — Meet Bob Stevens, CEO for Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government’s top military contracting company, serving the Defense Department, the […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
In this Feb. 15, 2008 file photo, a contractor is silhouetted while assembling model planes in the exhibition booth of Northrop Grumman at the site of the Singapore Airshow. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

(MintPress) — Meet Bob Stevens, CEO for Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government’s top military contracting company, serving the Defense Department, the National Security Agency and the Energy Department, among other government agencies. Last year, Stevens earned $25.3 million. His company alone was awarded $16 billion in military contracts

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Gov’t Documents Suggest Drone Skeptics’ Biggest Fear Of Widespread Aerial Surveillance

Customs Border Patrol Air and Marine division blackhawk helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle Fort Huachuca Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) (MintPress) – Since unmanned drones entered the domestic and national security arsenal in the mid-2000s, speculation of their intended domestic use has always taken precedent. Internationally, drones have predominantly […]

Joey LeMay
بواسطة Joey LeMay
Customs Border Patrol Air and Marine division blackhawk helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle Fort Huachuca Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

(MintPress) – Since unmanned drones entered the domestic and national security arsenal in the mid-2000s, speculation of their intended domestic use has always taken precedent. Internationally, drones have predominantly been used as an additional military weapon to promote strikes on militants in countries such as Pakistan and

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With Thousands Of Demonstrators, Student Protests Gaining Steam In Quebec

Demonstrators are gathered St. Michel square in Paris, France Tuesday May 22, 2012, to support Quebec students opposing tuition fee hikes and new legislation to limit demonstrations. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) (NEW YORK) MintPress — After a relatively quiet summer, student protesters in Quebec are once again making themselves heard. Thousands gathered at Montreal’s Place […]

Lisa Barron
بواسطة Lisa Barron
Demonstrators are gathered St. Michel square in Paris, France Tuesday May 22, 2012, to support Quebec students opposing tuition fee hikes and new legislation to limit demonstrations. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — After a relatively quiet summer, student protesters in Quebec are once again making themselves heard. Thousands gathered at Montreal's Place du Canada this week to protest the provincial government's planned tuition hike ahead of a parliamentary election that will be held on Sept. 4. A posting on the Facebook page created

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Analysis: 19 Congressmen Appeal for Bahraini Dissident’s Release

A man walks past a wall with human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, center, and Arabic, left, that reads, “freedom to human rights defender Nabeel Rajab,” on it in the northern village of Barbar, Bahrain, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (MintPress) — Nabeel Rajab, activist and director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
A man walks past a wall with human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, center, and Arabic, left, that reads, "freedom to human rights defender Nabeel Rajab," on it in the northern village of Barbar, Bahrain, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

(MintPress) — Nabeel Rajab, activist and director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was sentenced by a Bahraini court to three years in prison last week for organizing and participating in “illegal gatherings.” These gatherings have been mostly peaceful demonstrations by Bahraini citizens, demanding democratic reforms and greater

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