Monday, 03 March 2014 09:53 By Kanya DAlmeida, IPS News | Op-Ed (Photo via Shutterstock)A nurse helps an old man up from his chair. Holding onto her arms, he steps blindly forward, trusting her to lead him to his spot at the lunch… Continue Reading →
Olmstead v. United States led us to the era of Snowden. by AMY PEIKOFF February 22, 2014 – 10:42 pm In his influential dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Brandeis wrote: [E]very unjustifiable intrusion by the Government… Continue Reading →
The Huffington Post | by Jillian Berman Americans are so over soda. And while that may be good for the their expanding waistlines, it’s bad news for the companies that make the sugary drinks. Just take a look at this chart from… Continue Reading →
AP AP Some of the 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each about 7 feet high and 10 feet wide, reflect sunlight to boilers that sit on 459-foot towers. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal… Continue Reading →
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal PRESS RELEASE: New evidence presented in the US case against UCC for their responsibility for the ongoing soil/groundwater contamination in Bhopal.January 29, 2014, New York: Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp. released… Continue Reading →
“We called for help and they killed our son”: Out-of-control police overreach meets extreme secrecy Many watchdogs believe the police are killing more innocent Americans than ever. But here’s why they can’t be sure David Mizner (Credit: Reuters/Philip Andrews)… Continue Reading →
Think Progress / By Tara Culp-Ressler GOP lawmakers certainly failed our women this year. 2013 hasn’t been a great year for reproductive rights. Ever since 2010, abortion opponents have imposed a flurry of state-level legislation intended to slowly chip away at abortion access,… Continue Reading →
, ET By Chaumtoli Huq The recent arrest in New York of India‘s deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade for alleged immigration fraud has created an uproar and tension in India-US relations. Patriotic muscles are flexing in India, urging… Continue Reading →
By ROGER COHEN, NYT NEW DELHI — As we weave through early-morning Delhi traffic on his motorbike, Ravi Gulati gets into a riff about status symbols in India, how from Armani jeans to Audis they are almost all Western, and how… Continue Reading →
MONEYLIFE DIGITAL TEAM | 19/12/2013 Devyani Khobragade claims the value of her properties at Rs1.78 crore plus three tracts of land in her own statement to MEA. A lot of her properties are inherited from or gifted to her by her father, Uttam Khobragade, a controversial former IAS officer… Continue Reading →
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