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The Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) reports the long-term unemployed in the world's major economies has increased by 85% since the financial crash of 2008, and the "structural reforms" and austerity measures imposed in its wake. The OECD, which supported many of these measures, now warns cyclical unemployment has become structural, and any further cuts in wages or jobs would be "counterproductive" and threaten social cohesion.

The country's largest private prison firms are experiencing strong increases in the price of their shares as a result of the incarceration of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in recent months. While these firms have no experience in child welfare, investors nonetheless "see this as an opportunity." For private firms with existing federal contracts to detain immigrants, the increased jailing of unaccompanied minors is "a potentially untapped market."

Last Sunday the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confiscated nearly 1,000 acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank, a move the Israeli organization Peace Now termed "unprecedented in its scope since the 1980s." Peace Now said this recent seizure of 990 acres of Palestinian land places yet another "obstacle" in the road to a two-state solution. Israel confiscated 243 acres in the same area in April.

Unless you have celiac disease or a gluten intolerance – estimated to be about 1% of the population – or if you suspect that you do, do yourself a favor and avoid gluten-free products.

How many times was Justice Antonin Scalia wrong about Henry Lee McCollum and the death penalty?

The national media have tended to focus on which potential candidate Perry's indictment might help or hurt. But Texas reporters know Perry has a history of hardball politics, forcing people out of office, and say that we should take the charge of criminal abuse of office seriously.

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In Germany heads fall - Lenin's head still needs to be kept buried, and Berlin's once-popular gay mayor bows out. Another head featured in the press belongs to a man who is certainly not gay nor a Lenin. Sadly, current references to Vladimir Putin, evoke all too sharply recollections of German language used against every Russian leader since the start of World War I a hundred years ago.