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Venezuela Solidarity Network, 10/03/2007
“The Venezuela Solidarity Network notes with pleasure that Pandemic Studios announced on Sept. 24, 2007 that it is delaying the release of its new video game Mercenaries 2: World at War which is set in Venezuela,” announced US Interim Coordinator Chuck Kaufman.
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The Guardian (Australia), 10/03/2007
The Australian Government has admitted to secretly deporting five West Papuan asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea from where they had set off in a banana boat. They were intercepted on August 21 by a border patrol near Saibai Island.
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Courage to Resist, 10/03/2007
The Army appears ready to retry First Lt. Ehren Watada a week from now—Tuesday, October 9—at Fort Lewis, Washington.
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Luis Lázaro Tijerina, 10/03/2007
On September 26, 2007 at Hangzhou, China a revolution was born that would shake the world—a revolution in the world of Fútbol, commonly known in North America as “soccer.”
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Thomas Riggins, 10/02/2007
One of best arguments for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq can be based on our own self-interests. The fact that we are murdering and killing Iraqis and destroying their country and culture does not seem to impress the political class in the US.
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Matthew Cardinale, 10/02/2007
The Democratic-led US House recently passed an appropriations, or funding, bill for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development [as well as the Department of Transportation] which would cut 55,000 rental vouchers for low-income families
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David Bacon, 10/02/2007
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Immigrant workers workers and their supporters demonstrate in front of San Francisco City Hall and the Federal Building.
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Joel Wendland, 10/02/2007
Tens of thousands of people around the country will be gathering in at least 11 major cities in all regions of the country on October 27th to demand an end to war in Iraq.
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Prensa Latina, 10/02/2007
The richest country in the world, the United States, behaves like a thief by robbing Cuban banks of money illegally frozen, which it is supposed to conserve and protect.
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IRINNews.org, 10/02/2007
Ali Abdul Rahman, a 12-year-old Iraqi immigrant, joins an army of Jordanian beggars as they throng the vibrant streets of Amman in their tattered clothes, seeking a handout during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Uri Avnery, 10/02/2007
A respected American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran.
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B Prasant, 10/02/2007
For the past nine months, the Bengal CPI(M) and the Bengal Left Front had an intense campaign-movement on industrialization and agricultural growth across the state.
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Phil Rockstroh, 10/02/2007
Over the last three decades, the authoritarian right has risen to create the nation they have been longing for since their humbling by the Watergate scandal. After being subdued and humiliated by the mechanisms of a free republic, the right has turned the tables.
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Ramzy Baroud, 10/01/2007
Why would a country that was willing to sink so low now provide pretexts for hostilities by carrying out brazen assassinations against America’s allies in Lebanon? Each such assassination only helps cement the anti-Syrian cries stemming from Washington, Tel Aviv and Beirut.
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Susan Webb, 10/01/2007
The Chicago demonstration Oct. 27 is one of several regional actions United for Peace and Justice is organizing around the country to end the Iraq war, under the heading “Peace is possible.”
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Barbara Cummings, 10/01/2007
Book fairs like the one on the National Mall today are great places to go. I always attend the Los Angeles Times festival on UCLA campus. It is in April. Most of the time, a book fair is a safe place to be, a place to have intelligent discourse, share ideas or express different opinions.
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Earth Talk, 10/01/2007
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Fresh water scarcity is already posing major problems for more than a billion people around the world, mostly in arid developing countries.
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Pablo Ouziel, 10/01/2007
October 2nd will mark the birth anniversary of Human Rights Activist, Mahatma Gandhi and for the first time, the United Nations is officially proclaiming this day to be the International Day of Non-violence.
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Matthew Cardinale, 10/01/2007
Several families are being evicted from Bowen Homes public housing community, as early as Tuesday, October 02, 2007, after they have fallen behind in their rent.
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