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Moving Ideas Newsletter
December 15, 2005
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The United States and the United Nations are locked in a fight over the question of how the world body should be running its budgetary affairs.
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Analysis of new report on the economies of central Europe, published by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, on lessons applicable to Africa and Latin America.
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Several retired military leaders, including Veterans for Common Sense director Brigadier General Evelyn Foote and advisor Brigadier General David Irvine, are urging Congress to reject Senate-passed legislation that would nullify a 2004 Supreme Court ruling that gives detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their imprisonment.
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Scott Harshbarger says that even though prisoner “reentry” has become a hot topic among policy-makers and corrections professionals, we are far from having a comprehensive reentry strategy in place in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the nation.
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FBI statistics released in October document an increase in hate crimes in 2004 over those reported in 2003.
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The U.S. Social Security System, deemed backward and patriarchal by administration critics, suddenly is being pointed to, implicitly if not explicitly, as a model safety net -- just what countries like Chile and Britain need as they struggle to fix their malfunctioning private account based pension systems.
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This report provides an analytical commentary on the country's election system that examines new features of the system and explains why it remains unlikely to redress Sunni concerns or defuse the insurgency.
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The World Health Organization's (WHO) study on domestic violence on a global scale notes that women are much more likely to be subjected to violence at the hands of their partners than at the hands of strangers.
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Elizabeth Spiro Clark says that the debate over Iraq hinges on the capability of "Iraqi forces." But the new constitution has no federal internal force.
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Amy Goyer discusses the growing trend of grandparents raising grandchildren in the U.S. and across the globe.
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It is not commonly known that most Africans living with HIV/AIDS are women, and that young women are now being infected at a rate three to four times higher than young men. This article discusses the realities of African women living with HIV/AIDS.
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The West Bank Community Development Corporation has remained the last bastion of collective control of housing, working against the tide to prevent it from becoming just another financial asset, rather than a community’s asset.
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Ten years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord, Bosnia-Herzegovina should be on the move. Instead, it barely has a pulse, says Julie Mertus.
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AU Executive Director Rev. Barry W. Lynn wrote this open letter to Jerry Falwell on his war on Christmas campaign.
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The right of workers to join unions and negotiate for a contract has been so eroded over the past three decades that it hardly exists at all in the United States, says Mark Weisbrot.
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Rob Ritchie says that the key to ending the redistricting gridlock may lie in having more than one candidate win elections. Posted on TomPaine.com.
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In Hong Kong once again, the proposals on the table fail to benefit poor countries, says Laura Carlsen. In this context, it is necessary to change the rules of the game. If that is not possible, the logical reply is not to play a game where so few win and so many lose.
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Diverse forces are assembling to bring Bush administration officials to account for war crimes.
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A look at the international trade mission of Mexican President Vicente Fox: the promotion of the U.S. model of free trade, as embodied in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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Robert Dreyfuss says that with an alternative to the Shiite religious bloc emerging, next week's elections in Iraq are the final chance to avoid full-scale civil war.
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