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Turkey’s Protests Reflect A Broad Crisis Of Governance Across The West

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Brazilian Cities Cave To Protesters’ Demands; More Demonstrations Planned

The governments of both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro announced they would be lowering their public transit fares back to their previous rates.

Jill Langlois
بواسطة Jill Langlois

SAO PAULO, Brazil — The governments of both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro announced Wednesday night that they would be lowering their public transit fares back to their previous rates after two weeks of protests across Brazil. Sao Paulo's Governor Geraldo Alckmin and Mayor Fernando Haddad said that the city's bus, metro and train fare would lose

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Confirmed: The FBI Flies Drones In American Skies

The privacy implications of such operations are “worthy of debate,” FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The FBI uses drones for surveillance of stationary subjects, and the privacy implications of such operations are "worthy of debate," FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. He said the law enforcement agency very seldom uses drones now, but is developing guidelines that will shape how unmanned aerial vehicles are to be

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Will Legal Recreational Pot Actually Make Access More Difficult For Medical Users?

Medical marijuana patients in Washington fear their prescriptions will be taxed at the same rate as recreational users.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Medical marijuana advocates rallied at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash., on Wednesday to “save medical cannabis in Washington,” arguing that proposed changes to medical marijuana laws would hurt patients. Nothing is official yet, but medical marijuana advocates say that the prescription drug may soon be taxed in Washington -- and they fear they

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While The US Hypes Aid, Palestine Faces Barriers To Economic Growth

Even as Kerry pledges billions in aid, Palestine’s problem is that economic growth has been stunted by the Israeli occupation itself.

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
the Israeli West Bank wall

As the Middle East is consumed by anti-government protests in Turkey and a civil war in Syria that has consumed an estimated 93,000 lives, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders last month to discuss economic development in the region, pledging $4 billion to help bolster the Palestinian economy. Unlike previous

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Will The Election Of The New Iranian President Force The West To Rethink Sanctions?

Many inside and outside of Iran now see a possible end to the nation’s diplomatic and economic isolation.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

In Iran, the announcement of the election of Hassan Rowhani, a cleric and former nuclear negotiator, as president on Saturday had the nation’s reformists and moderates hopeful that the country’s conservative agenda may finally swing back toward the center. In light of a split conservative field in which no one candidate had the endorsement of

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EPA Pushes Back Fracking Impact Study To 2016

Meanwhile, the fracking continues and the industry continues to grow across the country.

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving back its timeline for release of its study on the impact of hydraulic fracturing from 2014 to 2016, the agency announced this week at the Shale Gas: Promises and Challenges conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The study, aimed at assessing the threats fracking poses to groundwater supplies and air quality,

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