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You name it, Eric Garcetti has done it
In exactly one week, Los Angeles will wake up with a newly elected mayor. The lucky leader of 4 million restless campers with cracked sidewalks could be Wendy Greuel, the business-suited Valley kid who worked for Mayor Tom Bradley and President...
Tags: George Plimpton, Elections, London School of Economics, Students, England
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Guillermo Martinez: No matter what is said, rights abuses abound in Cuba
For decades, the accusations of Cuban exiles about human rights abuses in Cuba have been questioned. It was 37 years ago when a local South Florida newspaper questioned Cuban exiles when they said the Castro regime held thousands of political...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Prisoners and Detainees, International Law, Elections, Human Rights Watch
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La paz y prosperidad de la industria armamentista
En su novela The Russia House, el británico John Le Carré desarrollaba una de las tramas más sofisticadas de la historia de las novelas de espionaje. Un disidente soviético hacía llegar a un agente británico un texto que demostraba que el arsenal...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Venezuela
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Joel Brinkley: A 'responsibility to protect' in Syria
American VoicesThe continuing massacres in Syria -- summary executions of women and children, the total destruction of entire towns -- present a horrid picture far more disturbing than we saw in Bosnia during the 1990s, before NATO intervened. With cell-phone cameras,...Tags: Laurent Fabius, NATO, Military Equipment, Weaponry, Massacres
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The UN: Dictators-R-Us
This week, world leaders will gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. As usual, the spotlight will be on some of the world’s biggest tyrants who will be given the key speaking positions.
Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will...Tags: International Law, Muammar Gaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel, United Nations
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Iran will investigate blogger's death in custody 'if necessary'
World NowAn Iranian parliamentary panel will investigate the death in custody of a young Iranian blogger, Sattar Beheshti, "if necessary," according to a lawmaker quoted by an Iranian news agency.... -
One of jazz's biggest-sellers ever, world music stars to play Sands Event Center
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGTwo music acts, including one of the biggest-selling jazz artists of all time, who were not formally announced by Sands Bethlehem Event Center have shown up on the venue’s website. Diana Krall, the pianist and singer who has sold more...... -
U.N. investigators report more abuses, 'jihadist militants' in Syria
World NowUnited Nations human rights investigators laid out a grim picture of a rapidly deteriorating Syria, saying atrocities were growing more frequent and numerous as the bloody conflict continued to rage, with foreign “jihadist militants”... -
Brown rejects expanding media access to prisons
PolitiCalThere is a parade of journalists these days passing through California's hard-core Pelican Bay State Prison, home to the state's most violent and dangerous inmates. But the wing that reporters most want to see -- and the inmates whom they...... -
Berman attacks Sherman over (legal) loans practice
PolitiCalRep. Howard Berman slammed fellow Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman for earning interest on loans he had made to his own campaign. The practice is legal and not uncommon but the Berman campaign believes it will turn off voters.... -
Amnesty International to Egypt: Stop 'bloody' legacy of repression
World NowAmnesty International sent a letter Tuesday to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi urging him to stem the “bloody” legacy of state repression highlighted in two reports that detail killings, torture and sexual assaults that have shaken the nation... -
Hong Kong police arrest 7 in harbor collision that killed 38 people
World NowHong Kong police arrested two captains and five crew members Tuesday in connection with the collision of a pleasure boat and a ferry that left 38 people dead and more than 100 injured in the territory’s worst maritime accident in four decades....
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