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On day five of the ceasefire between the Islamist group which controls Gaza, Hamas, and Israel, calm continued in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, but there has been little visible change in the sanctions regime imposed on the Palestinian enclave. |
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A ballot initiative that would have eliminated a woman's right to choose appears to have gone down in defeat, according to a report by Missoulian.com, based in Missoula, Montana. |
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Ill-tempered neo-con extraordinaire, John Bolton, is pushing for war with Iran. On Sunday, June 22, he predicted longingly to FOX News that Israel would wait until after the November 4th general election to launch an attack on Iran. |
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stated today the Black Sea is seriously threatened by an ecological disaster of unpredictable consequences. |
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Signaling that the John McCain campaign will not break with George W. Bush's campaign style of promoting fears about terrorism, top McCain adviser and lobbyist Charlie Black told Fortune magazine that a fresh terrorist attack "certainly would be a big advantage to [McCain]." |
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It would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. |
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The 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and its aftermath, the so-called "War on Terror," and the Iraq war, have given rise to instances of celebrated "western" figures using bigoted images of the "east." |
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(illustration by Yogamy Ferreras)
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The political upsurge ricocheting across the country has no counterpart in recent decades. Its breadth and depth are remarkable. Its politics are progressive. It is framing the nation’s political conversation. It rejects the old racist and sexist stereotypes. |
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I often wonder if our popular-culture addiction to violence derives less from a desire to slake some inward void, or from the so-called “CSI effect” that primes us to expect pseudo-scientific explanations for all manners of cruelty, than from the logic of the market. |
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(illustration by Julie Laquer)
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Marxists and non-Marxist economists have predicted the current financial crisis for some time. Its conditions have been in operation since the acceleration of the deregulation processes in the monetary and financial markets. |
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(illustration by Yogamy Ferreras)
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General Petraeus painted a rosy picture when he went back to Congress in early April requesting more cash and presenting a plan to extend the occupation. Petraeus recommended a “pause” in the withdrawal of “surge” troops mandated for this year, despite claims of “success.” |
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