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Behind Tunisia unrest, rage over wealth of ruling family
HAMMAMET, Tunisia — This ancient Mediterranean hamlet, advertised as the Tunisian St.-Tropez, has long been the favorite summer getaway of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his large extended family, many of whom have built vast beachfront mansions here with the wealth they have amassed during...
Freedom House releases report showing decline in democracy worldwide
(January 13, 2011) Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom House's annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in the nearly 40-year...
Tunisia’s and Ben Ali’s corruptions: the Wikileaks revelations
Tunisia is an odd, secular dictatorship. Its president is elected by popular vote to five-year terms. But the president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and his ruling party, also choose their opponents, vet their campaign platforms, regulate their campaign posters and messages, and limit the election seas...
The ‘food bubble’ is bursting, says Lester Brown, and biotech won’t save us
For years — even decades — Earth Policy Institute president and Grist contributor Lester Brown has issued Cassandra-like warnings about the global food system. His argument goes something like this: Global grain demand keeps rising, pushed up by population growth and the switch to more meat-heav...
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report....
The coming hunger: Record food prices put world ‘in danger’, says UN
Food riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet's poorest people are the likely effects of a new surge in world food prices, which have hit an all-time high according to the United Nations....
No police in Mexico town after last officer kidnapped
The Mexican border town of Guadalupe has been left with no police force after the last officer was kidnapped....
Ernesto Sabato, 99: Writer led investigation of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’
Ernesto Sabato, 99, a celebrated Argentine writer and intellectual who was chosen to lead an official investigation of thousands of killings by the military during the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s, and whose long life included careers as a physicist, public servant and artist, died April 30 at h...
How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis (opinion)
Demand and supply certainly matter. But there’s another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed. ...
Syrian security forces kill dozens of protesters
BEIRUT — Syrians who took to the streets Friday after prayers knew they were defying threats from their president....
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