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Una nueva iniciativa de ley sobre libertar de expresión y de prensa se gesta en corrillos legislativos, luego que los diputados mandaron al archivo el mes pasado un proyecto que impulsaron durante diez años el Colegio de Periodistas, medios de prensa y otras organizaciones.
El diputado Víctor Emilio Granados lamentó que el proyecto no se debatiera, [...]

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Unmanned drones could be banned from use in conflicts, Lord Bingham, one of Britain’s most senior judges has suggested.
by Murray Wardrop
July 6, 2009
Lord Bingham, who retired last year as a senior law lord, said the aircraft could follow other weapons considered “so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance” in being consigned [...]

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por Francisco Palacios Romeo
3 de julio, 2009
Existe una casi sospechosa unanimidad en condenar la factura del golpe de Estado en Honduras. Esta actitud viene facilitada por la nueva estrategia de la presidencia estadounidense.

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Marie Trigona
1 de junio de 2009
En respuesta a la desinformación y al nulo acceso a los medios de comunicación masiva, grupos de ciudadanos han creado redes de comunicación alternativos con un rol fundamental para la Latinoamérica actual. Conjuntamente estaciones de televisión comunitaria están transformando el paisaje americano. Ésta redefinición del espacio para medios independientes tiene [...]

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by Edward S. Herman
June 2009
In a system where corporations are central in economic activity, economic crises have always and necessarily produced plans and programs of renovation and improvement designed to make corporations more responsive to the public interest. Of course, there have always been some who urged nationalization or worker control; i.e., the replacement of [...]

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by Jon Hurdle
June 15, 2009
TAYLORSTOWN, Pennsylvania – A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas drilling and other businesses.
Blaine Township, a community of 600 about 40 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, hopes to trigger a [...]

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by Wade Goodwyn
All Things Considered, June 9, 2009 · Jamie Leigh Jones was a 20-year-old Halliburton employee in 2005 when she was sent to work in Iraq. She’d been there just four days when she joined a small group of Halliburton firefighters outside her barracks at the end of the day. One of them gave [...]

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by Ralph Nader
May 28, 2009
Once upon a time early in the 19th century, corporations came into existence by state legislatures approving charters, which were granted for a limited period of time and for limited purposes. These corporations – producing textiles and other products in New England – raised capital in part because their investors had [...]

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Having acquired rights of immortal persons, what kind of person is the corporation? By law, the corporation can only consider the interests of their shareholders. It is legally bound to put its bottom line before everything else, even the public good.
Fuente: The Corporation

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