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Supraja Narasimhan, 11/18/2007
Censored groups Veterans for Peace, Greater Atlanta Chapter 125 (VFP) and American Veterans for Equal Rights Georgia (AVER) both marched in the Georgia Veterans Day Parade held in downtown Atlanta on Sunday, November 11, 2007.
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Ramzy Baroud, 11/18/2007
The people of Somalia are enduring yet another round of suffering as Ethiopian forces wreck havoc in the capital, Mogadishu.
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Earth Talk, 11/18/2007
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Recent concerns surrounding toxic chemicals in children’s toys have focused on “phthalates” (pronounced THA-lates), a group of chemical compounds typically added to plastics to increase their softness and flexibility, and bisphenol A.
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Healthcare-NOW, 11/17/2007
Last week in Chicago, more than 100 Healthcare-NOW activists came together to plan our strategy for quality single payer, guaranteed choice, national healthcare during the coming year. We also launched our first SiCKO-Cure Road Show.
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People's Voice, 11/17/2007
A new and effective voice has joined the broad movement against Canada's role in the occupation of Afghanistan, with the launching of Military Communities Speak Out (MCSO).
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Sam Webb, 11/17/2007
Are we entering a new stage of struggle in our country in which the convergence and interaction of political events, movements, and processes of an immediate and medium term nature contain the possibility of throwing the class struggle on a new political trajectory?
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Kiraz Janicke, 11/17/2007
Speaking to national and international media at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denied opposition claims that proposed constitutional reforms are aimed at increasing personal power.
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Joel Wendland, 11/16/2007
Using just the sixth veto of his presidency, George W. Bush blocked passage of the Labor-HHS-Education funding bill this week. In addition to a myriad of social programs from health care to education, this bill provided funding for key veterans' health care programs.
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Combined Sources, 11/16/2007
We are writing to invite you to participate in a groundbreaking new media project: The People Media Project, aimed at promoting a broader and more balanced understanding of global issues, conflicts and concerns.
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Robert Ovetz, 11/16/2007
Imagine if someone put a superhighway through Yosemite. That’s exactly what’s happening just outside the Golden Gate. Our Yosemites on the sea are being used as on-ramps to the global economy.
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Akahata, 11/16/2007
Regarding the movement toward establishing a “two-party system,” the DPJ has put more emphasis on its “confrontational tactics” since Mr. Ozawa became its leader. The LDP and the DPJ share the same political line concerning the main political issues.
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John Bachtell, 11/16/2007
The US economy is increasingly driven by war spending, compelled by the parasitism of the giant military corporations through armaments production and the profit orgy gained from privatization of the Iraq war.
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Council On Hemispheric Affairs, 11/16/2007
Politicians find it exceedingly difficult to explain free trade's virtues without drowning the listener in a torrent of common coinage.
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David Zirin, 11/16/2007
Barry Lamar Bonds faces thirty years in prison because the Department of Justice is a corroded husk of political decay. The baseball Home Run King has now been officially indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
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Joel Wendland, 11/15/2007
The US House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday (11-14-07) that provided $50 billion in war funding. The bill would also mandate a change of direction in Bush's failed Iraq war policy.
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Pablo Ouziel, 11/15/2007
In November 2007 at the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago de Chile, the King of Spain Juan Carlos pointed his finger at Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and asked him, "Why don't you shut up?", after Chávez had called José María Aznar Spain's former Prime Minister a fascist.
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Bob Briton, 11/15/2007
A coalition of major media players recently released a report from an audit into the state of free speech in Australia. It is a disquieting document.
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Thomas Riggins, 11/15/2007
Slavoj Zizek begins his new article in the London Review of Books (11-15-07) with the words, “One of the clearest lessons of the last few decades is that capitalism is indestructible.”
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Mark Gruenberg, 11/15/2007
Off-year election results in state and municipal races on Nov. 6 show union voters are already energized for 2008, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney says.
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Philippine Communist Party (PKP), 11/15/2007
On November 7, 2007, the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP-1930) celebrated the 77th anniversary of the public proclamation of its founding and the 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution with a motorcade and public assembly
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