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...jumped an ocean and half a century to bring forward this episode only because it seems so strikingly relevant. In a curious trick of history, the American Tea Party—those who protest Obama’s tax policies by evoking 1773’s colonial steeping of three shiploads of British loose leaf in Boston Harbor—have much in common with their ex-antagonist country’s Angry Young Men. They’re deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. They think (justifiably) that nobody takes them seriously. They lack any theoretically rigorous suggestions...
...Obama Administration to tackle the foreclosure crisis. Multibillion-dollar proposals were flying like snowflakes in Washington, and Santelli's rant struck a chord with people who wondered where all the money would come from. "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party," Santelli declared, evoking the 1773 protest in Boston Harbor. A movement was born. Egged on by conservative interest groups and leveraging Barack Obama's digital-networking strategies, grass-roots opponents of the President's agenda have made themselves a major factor in U.S. politics...
...undergraduate degree from a Greek university and a master's degree in special education from the U.K. But the only job she can find is temporary, part-time work. In a good month, she makes $400. "My father helps support me," she said during a civil-servant protest against the austerity measures on Feb. 10. "We're already exploited by the state. We can't live on what they give us. How can they expect us to pay more...
...York City of a Pakistani woman scientist, Aafia Siddiqui, nicknamed Lady al-Qaeda, on charges of trying to shoot Americans in Afghanistan has also ignited anger in Pakistan against the U.S. The verdict was decried by Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and lawmakers and sparked anti-U.S. protest rallies in Lahore. (See the case against Aafia Siddiqui...
That will prove difficult. For the past few weeks, farmers have ridden their tractors along Greece's highways to protest plans to cut subsidies. At one point, delivery of produce on the country's northern borders ground to a halt. The Prime Minister has appealed to the farmers' sense of patriotism, but a long season of strikes is almost a certainty; state employees have a 24-hour protest planned for Feb. 10. (See 10 things to do in Athens...