President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

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Greece: SYRIZA, the Communist Party and the desperate need for a united front | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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Palestinians Mark Nakba with Protests

Al Jazeera:  More than 760,000 Palestinians, estimated today to number 4.7 million with their descendants, fled or were driven out of their homes. About 160,000 Palestinians stayed behind, and now number about 1.3 million, or 20 per cent of the population of Israel. CoH, p …

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News Corp hacking scandal: Murdoch confidante Rebekah Brooks charged with perjury, perverting course of justice

Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged on Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon's media empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment. Brooks was charged  …

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Iran Hangs 'Mossad Agent' For Allegedly Killing Nuclear Scientist

Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being …

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The whole point of the Director General of the BBC is that they are neutral - Harman | The Labour Party

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U.S. charter schools tied to powerful Turkish imam - CBS News

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How Obama Gave Rise to the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Obama is twice over responsible for Occupy Wall Street's existence. On the one hand, the failures and disappointments of his administration have been well documented and have totally undercut his campaign promises of hope and change, leaving former supporters completely disil …

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Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered - Yahoo! News

Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.

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