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Design-Focused University: Is It Really Needed?

warner444 July 8, 2011 0

The baby boomers are gone, and we need a new breed to continue what they started. Today, design is an obligatory and additional academic subject in majority of American universities. Design is being taught

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Russian security forces shoot 3 suspects dead

Mick Meaney May 14, 2010 0

Agence France-Presse Russian security forces yesterday shot dead three people suspected of organizing the suicide bombings in the Moscow metro. Security forces attempted to detain the three, but killed them after they fired back.

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Libya air crash inquiry under way

Mick Meaney May 13, 2010 0

Aviation officials in Libya are investigating the plane crash that killed 103 people at Tripoli airport. The flight recorders have been recovered and handed over to analysts for clues on what brought down the

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The End is at Hand (to Leftist Conspiracy Theories)

Mick Meaney October 31, 2008 14

By Dave Lindorff With the polls continuing to show Barack Obama holding a steady or even growing lead heading into Election Day, especially in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, New

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Documents Show Tobacco Industry Conspired Against Airline Smoking Ban

Mick Meaney October 21, 2008 0

PR Watch | An analysis of tobacco industry documents published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) tells how the German cigarette industry worked to stop Lufthansa, the flagship airline of Germany, from banning smoking

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DARPA Contract Description Hints at Advanced Video Spying

Mick Meaney October 20, 2008 0

By Walter Pincus | Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands,

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No More Investment Banks

Mick Meaney October 19, 2008 0

Turn Them Into Public Utilities      By Mike Whitney     “If you made it past the credit crisis, you are not making it past the economic carnage.” Meredith A. Whitney, market analyst at Oppenheimer

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System Failure and the Need for Revolution

Mick Meaney October 17, 2008 5

by Raymond Lotta | The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of letting up. The financial edifice of U.S. imperialism is in danger of crumbling. The U.S. ruling class

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Pilger’s law: ‘If it’s been officially denied, then it’s probably true’

Mick Meaney October 14, 2008 0

John Pilger, scourge of injustice, is still battling after half a century of campaigns. He’s even gunning for Tony Blair. By Ian Burrell Cross the threshold of John Pilger’s south London home and the

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Riot police use violence to break up student demonstration

Mick Meaney October 14, 2008 0

Harare – Riot police broke up a student demonstration in Harare, injuring at least four people and arresting three Tuesday, in the first such incident of police violence since the signing of a power-sharing

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Solutions for a Sustainable World

Mick Meaney October 13, 2008 0

TNI | The Schumacher lectures are traditionally held in Bristol but have now branched out so that Schumacher North, based in Leeds, also organises the series. They occupy a day, with three people delivering lectures

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Bush To Provide $6.4 Billion In Arms To Taiwan

Mick Meaney October 6, 2008 1

BigNewsNetwork | The U.S. government is to sell $6.4 billion of weapons to Taiwan, the State Department announced on Friday. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said Congressional approval was required, but believes this

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Investigating ‘Africa’s Guantanamo’

Mick Meaney October 2, 2008 0

Salim Awadh is talking to me from inside a cell somewhere in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. By Robert Walker | There are seven other prisoners kept in the same small, dark room, he

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No “Bailout” for the World’s Poorest

Mick Meaney October 1, 2008 0

By Thalif Deen | As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout package reverberated through the corridors of the United

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The Oppression of Black People, the Crimes of this System, and the Revolution We Need

Mick Meaney September 29, 2008 1

http://revcom.us/a/144/BNQ-en.html | “The young man was shot 41 times while reaching for his wallet”…“the 13-year-old was shot dead in mid-afternoon when police mistook his toy gun for a pistol”… “the unarmed young man, shot by

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Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups – Human Rights Watch in Venezuela

Mick Meaney September 29, 2008 1

By James Petras | Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the

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Rights groups demonstrate outside UN

Mick Meaney September 24, 2008 0

Amnesty International and human rights activists are expected to send a message to United Nations Security Council at a rally on Thursday evening urging the body to reject efforts to block indictment of Sudanese

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Will International Law Reach Bush?

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 2

By Peter Dyer | Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing shadow of a body

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Did The World Narrowly Avoid “Financial Armageddon” Last Week?

Mick Meaney September 22, 2008 0

By Mike Adams | According to insider traders speaking to the New York Post, the global financial system was only 500 trades away from experiencing a global meltdown — “Financial Armageddon” — which was

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When Corporations Rule the World

Mick Meaney September 22, 2008 0

PCDF | Those of us who seek to intervene in policy debates in favor of economic justice and environmentally sustainability are regularly assured by the world’s power brokers that they are fully committed to these goals

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Irish politicians back calls for universal arms trade treaty

Mick Meaney September 17, 2008 1

Politicians from all the main parties have given their support to a global campaign to ban the sale of arms to conflict zones such as Darfur and Burma, where they are likely to be

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Top Ten Ways to Reduce Plastic Consumption

Mick Meaney September 17, 2008 0

By Neil McLaughlin | By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the

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FIVE FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE SUPPORT DIRECT TALKS WITH IRAN

Mick Meaney September 17, 2008 0

National Security Network – Five former American secretaries of state all reaffirmed their support for direct talks with Iran. Henry Kissinger went as far as to say that there must be high-level talks with

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Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan

Mick Meaney September 16, 2008 0

By Neil Mackay | THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after

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Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors

Mick Meaney September 14, 2008 1

IPS | “I don’t sell cocaine,” says the video vendor in Kano’s Rimi market when I ask for Adam Zango’s music video CD Bahaushiya. He is not referring to the white powder, but instead

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