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Russia The Day the Inspectors Came
This is how it is in today's Russia, one year since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency. Over the last twelve months, the authorities have introduced a sweeping set of restrictive new laws. In addition to raids on nongovernmental groups, they are harassing, intimidating and imprisoning political activists. Government critics and even charities that can in no way be thought of as ...
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If all options are open why not prosecute Abu Qatada in the UK
Listening to Theresa May’s statement to Parliament today, it seems the British government is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan to face terrorism charges. A new treaty with Jordan aims to address the risk that Abu Qatada, who has already been convicted in his absence there, would be tried again using torture-tainted evidence. The main problem in Jordan, ...
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The Scotsman recruits friends in editorial and subscription deal
The Scotsman has launched a subscription initiative linked to the right to publish editorial content. It is inviting organisations - such as charities, universities, trade associations, professional bodies, societies and interest groups - to become "Friends of The Scotsman", which would give them the right to contribute to a new editorial section.If the initiative takes off, the ...
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A Real Life Hunger Games
Human Rights Watch, we’ve been documenting abuses of unaccompanied migrant children for more than 10 years, and I’ve personally interviewed hundreds of these children. The kids I met with are sent abroad in a last ditch effort to find a better life or escape persecution. Traveling with smugglers-under trucks, by foot, and in rickety boats-at least 10,000 unaccompanied children enter ...
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What matters now about marriage
A very few years ago, most Americans (including me) viewed the idea of gay marriage as both undesirable and wildly improbable. Today, most Americans (including me) believe that permitting gay and lesbian couples to marry is the right thing to do, a matter of simple justice. Let us pause in wonder at the speed and moral meaning of this change. As recently as a decade ago, homosexual conduct ...
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Rebooting the war on terror
Never before has he offered the public such a detailed explanation of his anti-terrorism strategy. In part, that's surely because so much of it was officially secret - but also because the public hasn't demanded a position more nuanced than "tough on terrorism." The president did three big things in his speech Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington. He ...
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When your laptop dies
It happened, as crises do, without warning. I was doing something essential, like trolling online for better and deeply discounted kitchen knives, when suddenly the image on my laptop went from hi-res to out-of-register. Most of the color fell away and a grim message appeared: My computer was having a problem, as though I hadn't noticed; I should wait a minute and try to turn it on ...
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Photo essay Riversides community table
Medina delivered tortillas one morning in 1989 from La Fiesta Tortilleria in Riverside's Casa Blanca neighborhood to Zacatecas Cafe, on University Avenue in the Eastside. Love? In a stack of tortillas? Jon Medina was 23 then, working in his parents' restaurant. They got married a year later; now other tortillas are piled high in the refrigerator, jaunty as layer cakes. Medinas have ...
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Words Of Wisdom For The Graduating Class Of Moore Okla.
With a city still in shambles from a deadly tornado, high school students in Moore, Okla., are graduating Saturday. High school students in Moore, Okla., will graduate on schedule Saturday, 6 p.m. at the convention center. Even more than usual, high school graduates in Moore may feel that this is a week in which they have, as the phrase from Corinthians says it, "put away ...
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Sole Survivor Iraq Rescue Mission Ended In Tragedy
In our latest installment of the StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Lance Cpl. Travis Williams. In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Williams and his 12-man squad came under attack. He was the only ...
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Are the UK local elections a wake-up call for David Cameron
Contributed by : The Editors Carol Gould's novel 'Spitfire Girls,' which in 2011 was under option to a major UK television production company, Sally Head Productions ('Prime Suspect')is available to upload from Amazon ...
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Phyllis Chesler Interviews Carol Gould
Contributed by : Phyllis Chesler We are reprinting one of our very special features:October 15, 2007 The Chesler Chroniclesby Phyllis CheslerINTERVIEWS WITH EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. CAROL GOULD: PRO-AMERICAN, PRO-ISRAELI, WHO LIVES IN LONDONISTAN FOR COMIC RELIEFCarol Gould is a very funny woman. She is as witty as she is heartbreaking and she is quintessentially theatrical. When I first met ...
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Who is your person of the year
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonAs election day in the Unites States has at long last come and gone and Inauguration Day approaches I am moved to respond to one of a mountain of editorials to emerge from the British print media this autumn.Andrew ...
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The sum total of my 2012 Experience trying to get into ONE Olympic event
Contributed by : Carol Gould Well, once again Piers Morgan is in the news. Notwithstanding my shame and horror as the Connecticut massacre unfolded on 14 December, his anti-American fury reminded me of the 'old' Piers who so hated the USA when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. Please read my full narrative below. Here is a link to the latest ...
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Why did British television not cover the Penn State child abuse story
Contributed by : Carol Gould [Editor's Note 16 November 2012: The Israeli-Palestinian situation is in the news again. Hundreds of rockets are being launched by Islamic Jihad by their own admission and by Hamas from Gaza into Israel as far north as Tel Aviv. If only the Palestinians would seek peace and not conflict...]10th November 2012LondonJust what did Liberal Democrat peer Lord ...
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Millions saved but now face financial ruin
Contributed by : Carol Gould Putting gay marriage and abortion aside, the dilemma Americans have is that a successful businessman is pitted against an incumbent who has not made the 2008 dream of prosperity a reality. Barack Obama has not shown the promise so many expected of him. When Susan Eisenhower and Julie Nixon, the progeny of Republican presidents, formed Republicans for Obama that ...
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The Condoleezza Rice Factor
Contributed by : Carol Gould In light of the Prime Minister proposing that Housing Benefit be taken from young people aged twenty-five and under I have written the following letter to my MP:Dear Karen,As an American with dual US-UK nationality I find it repugnant to see the perpetual banging-on by the media and politicians about the benefit system and the ...
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Austerity does not Work
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOne of the most remarkable interviews I have watched in years was broadcast on CNN in mid- May; I was about to report on its significant points when its subject, Vidal Sassoon, sadly left this mortal world. In the interview Sassoon said capitalism had not worked and that much of the world and most particularly the United States ...
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The YouGov Panel on the US Elections
Contributed by : Carol Gould Carol Gould on Libya24 March 2012I believe that the issue of ...
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For Americans Lockerbie Will Not go Away
Contributed by : Carol Gould Andrew Adler in the January 13 edition of the Atlanta Jewish Times has called for the assassination of President Obama by the Israeli Mossad as part of a coordinated scenario to remove the Iranian regime and its nuclear development programme. Adler may actually be violating state and federal law and his words have been roundly condemned worldwide but I've ...
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TIMES article about Carol Gould and the General Medical Councils Failure to take Owen Gilmore to trial
Contributed by : Carol Gould Gaddafy is dead. There are calls for the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasst ali al Megrahi to be returned to jail in Scotland (the irony is that he might be safer in Great Britain than at home if civil war takes hold) and for the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, killed outside the Libyan Embassy in London on 17 April 1984, to be tracked down and finally brought to ...
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Philadelphia High School for Girls my memories 40 years on
Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison ...
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Our Nightmare Day in Mayfair London 911
Contributed by : Carol Gould 24th Septembwer 2011LondonAs I languish in homesickness on this day of the fortieth reunion of the graduating class of 1971 I offer to our readers the essay I composed for the Reunion Committee : my memories of the turbulent world events of 1967-1971. It is so hard to make non-Americans and even non-Philadelphians understand the sisterhood that lasts a lifetime ...
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First it was the Big Society Now its the Broken Society
Contributed by : Carol Gould (First published February 20, 2011)LondonWhen I was a very little girl my mother used to say to my sister and me that ...
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July 10th Carol Gould Jonathan Freedland Omar Barghouti and Seni Seneviratne at the 2011 South Bank Literature Festival...
Contributed by : Carol Gould The article below was published in December 2010. As the USA gets closer to default I reject claims by conservative commentators that the present crisis arises from the Obama adninistration's action or inaction. Though I will acknowledge that Franklin Roosevelt was a consummate politician who knew how to commandeer support from Republicans, which Obama ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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