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June 19 – June 23, 2006
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Clara West, 06/24/2006
This ballot initiative exposes all Michigan residents to the dangers of a society divided by racial hostility or sexual discrimination.
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Joel Wendland, 06/24/2006
Michigan voters can’t trust Dick DeVos. He says one thing – about jobs, Michigan schools, and ethics – but his record says another.
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People's Voice, 06/24/2006
In the wake of the arrests of seventeen alleged terrorists in the Toronto area, Prime Minister Harper and other leading right-wing politicians have joined with much of the corporate media in painting the suspects as guilty before being tried.
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Gene C. Gerard, 06/24/2006
The flag represents all that is noble about America. It symbolizes our rights and freedoms, and it should be treated with respect. But it’s merely a symbol.
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Jonathan Springston, 06/24/2006
Homeless advocates are planning a fabulous redesign of the Peachtree and Pine Homeless Shelter into a major community hub, where the homeless will eventually run a coffee shop, restaurant, market, art studio, and rooftop garden, to enhance downtown culture and provide themselves a way out of poverty.
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Christine Raine, 06/24/2006
In early June U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick had the nerve to speak publicly against "interventionism" in Latin America at a meeting of the Organization of American States in the Dominican Republic.
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Amit Sen Gupta, 06/24/2006
ANALYSTS have, for long, referred to the "10/90 gap", according to which only 10 per cent of investment in R&D of new drugs is aimed at the so-called "orphan diseases," which afflict 90 per cent of the world population who live in the developing South.
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Ramzy Baroud, 06/24/2006
Al-Zarqawi, or his myth has apparently outlived his usefulness. The Iraq conflict seems to be going in a new direction, though its success or failure is unknown.
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Jason Miller, 06/24/2006
Contrary to the “catapulted propaganda”, Enron, Haditha, and Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents or the work of a “few bad apples”. American savagery and oppressive behavior pervades our society and predates our nation’s birth.
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Council On Hemispheric Affairs, 06/24/2006
U.S. specialists are currently awaiting the White House’s next drug certification report, which is normally released in September, to see whether the Bush Administration will continue to use the document as a political tool rather than a piece of objective research.
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Council On Hemispheric Affairs, 06/24/2006
René Préval has an enormous task ahead of him, as he picks up the reins of a battered and demoralized nation – one that is in the ER, almost terminal. Reforming the Haitian judicial system, however, is perhaps the most critical of his multiple burdens due to its near ruinous condition.
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José Reinaldo Carvalho, 06/23/2006
The unusual circumstances in which the Brazilian electoral campaign is being launched are neither amenable to the mouthing of the usual platitudes, nor to the sowing of illusions.
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Frank Kendrick, 06/23/2006
Last April, the Nicaragua Network, a Washington-based solidarity group, “condemned” the intervention of U.S. Ambassador Paul Trivelli in Nicaragua’s election process.
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Earth Talk, 06/23/2006
Antibiotics have played a profoundly important role in staving off bacterial infections since Alexander Fleming first discovered them in 1927.
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