Researchers from Save the Children looked at the health, education and economic status of women in 165 countries to develop the ranking, with Norway claiming the top spot and Somalia the bottom.
Most of the top spots are taken by Scandinavian countries. ...[
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Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gel ...[
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Four years ago, a British educator and permaculturist named Rob Hopkins initiated what has since become one of the most rapidly evolving and far-reaching social experiments of our time. The Transition movement - which encourages people in cities and towns ...[
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SOPA supporters now want to bypass democratic process to push censorship for private profits through international trade agreements.
Pro-SOPA industry giants urged the White House in secretive international trade talks to adopt stronger intellectual pro ...[
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For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media.
This is the earlier documentary made by creators of 'Catastroik ...[
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Creators of the documentaries Debtocracy, and Catastroika, explain :
It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov ...[
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More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program.
Nearly half of them live in California, and the rest reside in Florida, Illinois, North Carolin ...[
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Trade unions in Poland block parliament after parliament voted to increase retirement age.
Solidarity activists have camped out for the last three days opposite the parliament building in Warsaw and have vowed to disrupt events during the Euro 2012 foot ...[
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In an act that is both art and a protest, 25 life-size figures appeared in front of the Deutsche Bank branch at Berlin's Alexanderplatz today at 10am this morning. The cut-out figures were cardboard 'clones' of Occupy activists from around the world. In ...[
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