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Idealism won’t get you far in convincing Harvard to divest. The University already has an internal watchdog to ensure that Harvard invests in responsible companies and presidents since Nathan Pusey have balked at the idea of politicizing the endowment. But for persistent idealists, try these steps...
Unfortunately, this example of the right wing forcing its agenda down the throats of Texas children comes as no surprise. Textbook publishers who want to tap into the nation’s second largest textbook market must go through a gauntlet of citizen watchdog groups and right-wing think tanks who inspect the books before passing them on to the no less conservative State Board of Education for approval. By these means the Lone Star State has already been rewriting American History from the perspective of the hard-line religious right for years...
...Bush faced when he first came to office. More than two years have passed since Washington confronted Pyongyang with evidence indicating that it was secretly working on a new nuclear weapons program. Since then, North Korea has pulled out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, kicked out inspectors from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, and boasted openly about refashioning used reactor fuel into bombs. Today, with perhaps as many as eight nuclear devices in the North Korean arsenal, the clock is ticking?the U.S. has said it cannot tolerate a nuclear-tipped North Korea, but it has failed to shut...
...Portion of Indian parliamentarians facing criminal charges, including murder, extortion and rape, according to the Bangalore-based watchdog Public Affairs Centre...
...lack of trust Americans have in their media is reflected by the number of media watchdog groups, each with its own left- or right-leaning agenda, that have sprung up in the last few years. There’s the Media Research Center, whose mission is to “prove that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values.” And then there’s Media Matters for America, whose opposing raison d’etre is “to comprehensively monitor, analyze, and correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media...