MediaMatters: Under its president, Roger Ailes, Fox News routinely employs racially charged appeals to foment opposition to the Obama administration and other progressive figures, such as Glenn Beck’s comments that President Obama is a “racist” and “has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” Before launching the Fox News Channel, Ailes worked [...]

Politico: The Nov. 3 House special election in New York is emerging as a early conservative test for the 2012 GOP presidential field, with three prospective candidates for the nomination breaking with the party establishment in recent days to endorse Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman. On Monday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty became the latest party [...]

MediaMatters: In recent days, both Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have suggested that the H1N1 flu vaccine may be unsafe and questioned the Obama administration’s recommendation that Americans get vaccinated, with Limbaugh asserting that “[y]ou’ll be healthier” if you don’t believe what the government says and Beck suggesting that the vaccine may be “deadly.” However, [...]

At present, the process of migration is perceived to be a movement of people from developing countries to rich, developed countries of North America, Europe and Australia. However, in reality, most human movements in the world do not take place between developing and developed countries or between any countries for that matter. A UNDP (2009) [...]

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