Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jonathan Springston ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct 27 (IPS) – A federal appeals court in Atlanta has stayed the execution of Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis scheduled for Monday — the third time he has been [...]
EDUCATION-US: Credit Crunch Hits College Students
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Matthew Cardinale ATLANTA, Oct 23 (IPS) – The credit crunch is limiting college access for some students in the United States by making it more difficult for them or their parents to obtain student loans to [...]
POLITICS-US: Candidates’ Worldviews Are Worlds Apart
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (IPS) – While the ongoing financial crisis has almost entirely displaced foreign policy and even the Iraq War as the main concern of voters here, the differences in approach [...]
POLITICS-US: Campaigns Spar Over Broken Health System
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Bankole Thompson DETROIT, Michigan, Oct 23 (IPS) – For a man who said he watched his mother battle with insurance companies while dying of cancer in a hospital bed, and whose 85-year-old grandmother is said to [...]
ECONOMY-US: It’s Not the ”Greedy Poor People”
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 23 (IPS) – A 31-year-old law designed to put an end to ”redlining” and other restrictive practices that effectively shut poor and minority families out of home-ownership and neighbourhood [...]