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UK to deport activist to Pakistan

mercredi 15 octobre 2014 à 14:00

The UK plans to deport Liaquat Ali Hazara to Pakistan where he faces death threats from religious fanatics.

Kurds in Turkey fighting the state

mercredi 15 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Fighting has flared up between Kurds in Turkey and the Turkish state.

This fighting seems to have been provoked by Turkey's policy of passively helping PISSI to capture Kobani.

Bolivia reelects Morales

mercredi 15 octobre 2014 à 14:00

President Morales of Bolivia was reelected after his socialist policies reduced poverty and grew the economy.

You can cause economic growth with right-wing policies too, as the US and UK have demonstrated, but doing it that way increases poverty.

Reclaiming Louisiana land lost to sea

mercredi 15 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Louisiana plans a megaproject to reclaim some of the 2000 square miles lost to the sea in the last century.

In principle, it is a good idea, but it will be futile if we don't stop pumping out the greenhouse gases that melt icecaps and raise sea level even more.

Ireland to close a tax loophole

mercredi 15 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Ireland will close one of the tax loopholes that multinational corporations use to avoid paying tax on their income cross Europe.

However, Ireland's low corporation tax still constitutes beggar-thy-neighbor. The rest of Europe, if it were not corrupted by those same corporations, would make Ireland stop this.