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Activists Say 2013 Dark Year For Saudi Rights

With global attention focused on upheaval elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia quietly intensified its clampdown on dissent in 2013.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With global attention focused on upheaval elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia quietly intensified its clampdown on dissent in 2013, silencing democracy advocates and human rights defenders with arrests, trials and intimidation in what reformists say was one of the darkest years ever for their efforts in the

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Georgia Congressman: Make Poor Kids Sweep Floors For School Lunch

“Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch?”

Les Neuhaus
بواسطة Les Neuhaus

Taking a page from Newt Gingrich, Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia said on Saturday that he thought it was high time underprivileged children in this country begin to learn the value of money better by being forced to pick up a broom and sweep floors in exchange for their federally-subsidized school lunches. During the Republican primaries, Gingrich

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Obama’s Anti-Human Trafficking Policy May Prove To Be Tough Hurdle For Tech Companies

The initiative states that government contractors cannot sell jobs to vulnerable populations or knowingly engage in any other human rights abuses.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

The upcoming launch of a new initiative commissioned by President Barack Obama could spell trouble for Apple if the technology giant fails to enact policies that protect the rights of its employees around the globe. Although the policy has not been enacted yet, the initiative is based on an executive order Obama signed last year called

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Washington Post, Bezos Must Disclose Relationship With CIA: Media Watchdogs

Such a relationship is called an “agent of influence” in the intelligence world, a former CIA official said.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Absent from the pages of the Washington Post’s print and online editions is a disclaimer that the newspaper’s owner not only works with, but profits from the Central Intelligence Agency, prompting media critics to cry foul. This past March, the Washington Post’s new owner Jeff Bezos, who is also the founder and CEO of Amazon, “won” a $600 million

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Expiring Tax Deductions Prompt Talk Of Tax Reform

Without congressional action to extend state and federal tax deductions, 11 million taxpayers will lose $17 billion.

Jo Erickson
بواسطة Jo Erickson
Deductions and tax reform

As the year ends nine federal tax provisions will expire, causing some to pay more in state and local sales taxes. Most critics agree that state and federal taxes need an overhaul, but in which direction? In recent years, the issue of state and federal taxes has been hijacked by partisan politics. Tea party champion Grover Norquist and his

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Senate Torture Report Remains Shrouded From Public

More than ever, the report needs to be declassified so those with a political agenda can no longer manipulate public opinion, Sen. Martin Heinrich said.

Carey L. Biron
بواسطة Carey L. Biron
Guantanamo Hunger Strike

 WASHINGTON --- Not a single word of a 6,000-page Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture in the context of the war on terror has been deemed fit for the public and declassified. A year after the Senate Intelligence Committee adopted the landmark, reportedly comprehensive investigation, the report remains bottled up

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