Social Reform

EU president wants to see a new Euro tax

IRISH taxpayers will be hit by a new Euro tax which will be introduced to fund the expanding Brussels bureaucracy if new EU president Herman Van Rompuy gets his way, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

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Eisenhower and the Landslide Election of 1956

American Voters Trusted the General in the Wake of Global Crises Ending the Korean War, achieving a budget surplus, and presiding over a period of increasing prosperity enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower to win over 57% of the vote...

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Ambedkar’s Boys at the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM):

At first sight, 27-year-old VV Selvaraj looks more the assistant manager with Idea Cellular that he was until six years ago than the firebrand — and controversial — dalit leader he has quickly turned out to be in Kerala. He...

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World Bank approves $300m loan to Jordan

WASHINGTON: The World Bank has approved a $300 million Development Policy Loan (DPL) to Jordan to support the Government’s medium-term development program in the context of the current global economic crisis. The approval of...

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Damaging bleaching practice

Published: Saturday | November 21, 2009 The Editor, Sir: I refer to the articles published in The Sunday Gleaner, Nove-mber 22, on skin bleaching. I have done community research and audio-visual documentation on this subject...

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American and Chinese Students Fight for Rights of Workers

by Paul Garver American student anti-sweatshop activists have won their first major victory in a decade-long campaign against sweatshop conditions and repression of labor unions in Central America. Russell Athletic, largest...

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Illegal downloaders face broadband limits

By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent Internet users who illegally download films and music will run the risk of being cut off from the web under new laws published by the Government today. Under the powers set out in the...

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Still his own man

SEUMAS MILNE | LONDON, ENGLAND - Nov 20 2009 14:35 Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. Like the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, who spoke out against...

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Today's Birthday: Robert F. Kennedy

Born in Brookline, Mass., younger brother of President John F. Kennedy. A graduate of Harvard (1948) and the Univ. of Virginia law school (1951), he managed John F. Kennedy's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952....

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Benefits could be axed to fund care for the elderly

Plans to reform social care for the elderly came under fierce attack yesterday when it emerged that key benefits received by millions of pensioners could be axed to pay for the overhaul. Downing Street confirmed it was possible...

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