Hitesh Hathi

Hitesh Hathi appears in the following:

From 'Black Power' To 'Black Lives Matter'

Friday, December 05, 2014

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad says the nationwide protests seen in response to events in Ferguson amount to a 21st century social movement. Muhammad says the cry for Black Power has given way to #BlackLivesMatter.

Commentators like historian Andy Seal see that as a retreat ...

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Putin Stands Defiant Despite Falling Oil Prices

Friday, October 17, 2014

There are reports of progress today at Europe-brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia on a key issue: the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine during the winter.

The talks coincide with sharply falling oil prices. The price of Brent crude, which serves as a benchmark, has fallen about 25 percent ...

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Anger In Hong Kong As Police Use More Force

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The beating of a pro-democracy protester by the police has raised anger and tensions in Hong Kong.

The beating, caught on tape by TVB — a Hong Kong station generally known to be pro-Beijing — shows the police hauling a protester to a dark corner and beating him.

The video ...

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Why Israeli Officials Are Upset Over Flight Cancellations To Ben Gurion Airport

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Israel is offering an alternative to international airlines today — an airport in the Negev desert. The move comes as an increasing number of airlines have canceled flights to the country, after U.S. and European safety agencies temporarily banned flights to Israel’s only fully international airport — Ben Gurion, outside ...

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Gay And Religious Rights Groups Redrawing Battle Lines After Hobby Lobby Ruling

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Six major gay rights groups have withdrawn their support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the proposed law to prohibit workplace discrimination.

The groups, including Lambda Legal, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), say they cannot support the bill because it includes ...

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Kurdish Leader Talks Independence As Iraqi Parliament Adjourns In Chaos

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

The president of Iraq’s Kurdish region says Iraq is “effectively partitioned,” and the Kurds will no longer “hide” their goal. He promised an independence referendum in “a matter of months.”

President Massoud Barazani made those comments to the BBC today, adding that, “everything that’s happened recently shows that it’s the ...

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Afghan Expert Calls Bergdahl Deal 'Victory For Common Sense'

Monday, June 02, 2014

Along with celebrations over the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, there are growing questions. House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers of Michigan is asking whether the Obama administration broke the law in not consulting Congress over the negotiations and says this is a “dangerous” precedent: “If you negotiate ...

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Michael Lewis: Wall Street Now Like 'A Private Viewing Of A Stolen Work Of Art'

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Michael Lewis has explored the flaws of the financial market in a series of books. In his latest, “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,” he details how he thinks Wall Street is rigged by high-frequency traders for their own gain.

While the new book continues to raise controversy, ...

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Republicans On The Offensive Over Benghazi, IRS

Friday, May 09, 2014

Republicans voted this week to appoint a select committee to re-open the investigation of the Obama administration’s actions before, during, and after the September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Beghazi, Libya.

That attack killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. The Republican move ...

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Tensions Escalate In Ukraine As Diplomats Meet In Rome And Brussels

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Crimea’s parliament has moved up the date for a public referendum on whether the region should formally secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.

The move by the Russian-backed Crimean regional government comes just two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country was not going to annex ...

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What Are Russia's Intentions Toward Ukraine?

Friday, February 28, 2014

What are Russia’s intentions toward Ukraine? That question has grown more urgent this week.

Today, Ukraine’s new interior minister is accusing Russia of “military invasion and occupation,” saying Russian troops have taken up positions at two airports and a Coast Guard base in the Ukrainian region of Crimea.

Yesterday, armed ...

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Are We On The Titanic Or The Olympic?

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Are we on the Titanic or the Olympic? That’s the question New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik asks in his piece “Two Ships,” as he looks at the last time Western civilization went from ’13 to ’14.

Gopnik is re-visiting the turn from 1913 to 1914, to think about ...

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Did Silicon Valley Help The NSA Spy?

Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Georgetown University professor Abraham Newman argues that business practices at the big technology companies have helped the National Security Agency gather consumers’ personal data in the U.S. and abroad.

Technology companies have reacted sharply to revelations of N.S.A. spying on their customers’ data. Google said, “We are outraged at the ...

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Anger In Germany Over U.S. Spying

Thursday, October 24, 2013

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly placed an angry call to President Obama after revelations that the U.S. may have been monitoring her cell phone.

The story was first published in the German news magazine Der Spiegel. It’s the latest fallout from the documents revealed by former National Security ...

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