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VideoObama Should Have Turned It Down
by Rinku Sen on October 9 2009, 10:31AM
Obama’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize reminds me of this clothing commercial in which a man whose face you can’t see is at an interview or on a date. He’s told that he has horrible work history or got…
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Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on October 9 2009, 9:26AM
From the NY Times: President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after he made United…
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At the G-20, Real Solutions Off the Table; Accidental American Shows the Way
by Debayani Kar on September 24 2009, 11:43AM
Today and tomorrow, leaders of the Group of 20 Nations, or G-20, are meeting in Pittsburgh for the latest in a series of meetings intended to address the global economic crisis. The global recession has shifted the nature of…
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Shah Rukh Khan: Bollywood Border Stop
by Guest Columnist on August 17 2009, 8:58AM
Written by: Deepa Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) The Shah Rukh Khan incident at Newark International Airport over the weekend has elicited a range of viewpoints and opinions. Shah Rukh Khan, a famous Bollywood…
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BREAKING: Imprisoned American Journalists Freed after Clinton Visit
by Cindy Von Quednow on August 4 2009, 12:44PM
Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been pardoned! That’s right the two Current TV reporters who were captured in North Korea in March and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor were officially released and pardoned this afternoon after…
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TheGrio.com on the Obamas in Africa
by Channing Kennedy on July 10 2009, 6:34PM
Hours ago, the First Family arrived in Accra, Ghana, on their way home from events in Russia and Italy. MSNBC’s theGrio.com has been covering the Ghanaian anticipation to this historic visit, and the politics around it, with their massive Obamas…
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Iran vs. Honduras: The Hypocrisy of the Mainstream Media
by Guest Columnist on July 3 2009, 11:24AM
Written by: Elsadig Elsheikh, Research Associate with the International Program at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity On Sunday, June 28th, major media news outlets were still occupied with the topic of Iran’s sham election results,…
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5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Honduras Fight for Justice
by Cindy Von Quednow on July 1 2009, 2:41PM
In a throwback to the political upheaval and unrest of the 1980s, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the military and flown to Costa Rica on Sunday. Coverage of Iran’s rigged election has dominated…
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South Africa Isn’t Post-Racial Either
by Daisy Hernandez on June 24 2009, 2:25PM
Bob Jensen’s new essay at ColorLines.com looks at how whites in the U.S. and South Africa are having the same conversations about race. He includes great snippets from the book I Write What I Like, which collects the writings…
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Dole Goes Bananas Over Documentary on Nicaraguan Worker Abuse
by Channing Kennedy on June 16 2009, 4:36PM
BANANAS!* trailer from WG Film on Vimeo. Two years ago, twelve Nicaraguan banana plantation workers traveled to Los Angeles and sued Dole Food Co. Inc. They won $1.58 million. The crime? Continued use of the pesticide dibromochloropropane (DBCP), which…
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Uighur Release Debunks Racist Right-Wing Narrative
by Cindy Von Quednow on June 16 2009, 12:50PM
Photo: Justin Maxon/The New York Times Last Sunday, The New York Times printed a pleasant piece on the new lives of four recently released Uighur prisoners in Bermuda, debunked the conservative rhetoric around them as “dangerous terrorists.” The Uighurs’…
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Iranian Protests Over Ahmedinejad’s Dubious “Landslide” Met With Violence
by Channing Kennedy on June 13 2009, 9:49AM
I woke up this morning anxious to check the results of the Iranian elections, in no small part because I’m a politics nerd, but also because I’ve been so moved by the photos coming out of Tehran of Mousavi’s…
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by Michelle Chen on June 12 2009, 11:07PM
After about three decades behind bars, a Puerto Rican revolutionary might soon be free at last. A generation ago, Carlos Alberto Torres was part of a major movement for human rights and self-determination for Puerto Rico. Driven by the…
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by Michelle Chen on June 11 2009, 10:03PM
Using the word “apartheid” to describe the Israel-Palestine issue is a sure way to ignite more acrimony over human rights under the occupation. But, with language being inseparable from the politics of the region, is it accurate? According to…
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Four Women Journalists, One Goal
by Guest Columnist on June 10 2009, 2:44PM
by Cindy Von Quednow They all come from different backgrounds and beliefs, but all of them have a few things in common: they are women of color, they are journalists and they have been imprisoned in a foreign country…
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Hurting or helping the hungry?
by Michelle Chen on June 8 2009, 4:15PM
Let’s say you’re hungry. In your backyard, dewy tomatoes dangle from robust vines, and hormone-free Holsteins graze in the shade of lush fruit orchards. But you’re mysteriously pulled down the street into a sprawling supermarket, where your shopping cart…
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Salvadorans Hope for Change with New President
by Guest Columnist on June 5 2009, 12:57PM
Cindy Von Quednow This week El Salvador’s new president took office, ending 20 years of governance by the conservative ARENA party. The new president, Mauricio Funes, represents the leftist Farabundo Martin National Liberation Front (FMLN). I was in El…
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Reading between the lines in Cairo
by Michelle Chen on June 4 2009, 9:21PM
President Obama’s speech in Cairo aspired to recast America’s relations with the “Muslim world.” The response of Muslim observers in the so-called Western world ranged from cautious hope to detached cynicism. But across the board, people noted Obama’s careful…
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Bill Clinton Named New UN Envoy to ‘Stabilize’ Haiti, a Country He Helped Destabilize
by Guest Columnist on May 19 2009, 3:18PM
by Jeremy Scahill This post originally appeared on RebelReports. Former US President Bill Clinton has been named by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as his special UN envoy to Haiti. Clinton will reportedly travel to the country at least…
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Just words?: Human rights and the White House
by Michelle Chen on May 12 2009, 5:24PM
The United States took a seat today in the the U.N. Human Rights Council, thawing the chill set by the Bush administration between Washington and the world’s highest human rights body. Yet membership on the Council hardly guarantees progress…
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