US steers clear of joining International Criminal Court, but it is now much more aligned with the court’s goals than ever before. By Blake Evans-Pritchard Although the United States remains outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, it is increasingly showing support for the court, and more generally for international efforts to bring the perpetrators […]
Invisible Money 5
Invisible Money 5 The Cloud Factory Revisited Up The Ladder, Marius Kohl To Luc Frieden Iddhis Bing With the equivalent of 67 trillion dollars floating in and around what is known as the off-shore "shadow banking system" – in tax havens and fiscal paradises from Delaware to Mauritius, the isle […]
Contraceptive Mandate Tests a Woman’s Right to Decide and Freedom of Religion
By: Karly Berezowsky The Obama administration mandate requiring employee healthcare coverage of contraceptives has fueled heated debate over the past month and widened the political wedge between the religious right and women’s rights advocates. On one side of this highly charged issue, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, pro-choice activists argue it is the law and all employers, […]
Lack of Internet Cuts Off Afghan Province
Education, journalism and other areas held back by technology gap in Uruzgan. By Ahmad Shah Jawad Although internet access has increased in Afghanistan in recent years, people in the central Uruzgan province say they remain almost completely unconnected, leaving them isolated from the outside world. About one million of Afghanistan’s 30 million inhabitants were […]
An Economic Recovery Plan that Would Actually Work
Where are American jobs? Politicians keep talking about them, but can we really expect to see them? Tax cuts have been proposed by the right and stimulus measures have been proposed by the left — but neither of these will have any meaningful, positive effect on our economy. We can no longer continue the status […]
Debt Ceiling: Joke’s On Us
All week I have felt nauseous. There has been a knot grinding in my stomach. The same gut feeling I got when I am about to buy a co-op in Park Slope, Brooklyn that I couldn’t afford in 1981. That too was a recession year and my first daughter was just born. At first, […]
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