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Sherwood Ross, 12/07/2007
Just how much are the American people supposed to take? Here we’ve got a president who lied us into making war on Iraq and who, despite a new National Intelligence Estimate(NIE), is stubbornly trying to lie us into another war against Iran.
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Joe Sims, 12/06/2007
This morning's news is full of stories about yet another mind numbing massacre committed by a teen aged male in Omaha, Nebraska, with eight people dead and several wounded.
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Jonathan Springston, 12/06/2007
The Atlanta City Council voted to first amend and then send back to committee a resolution that would have created a Task Force to study the effects of the Atlanta Housing Authority’s (AHA) Quality of Life Initiative on public housing residents.
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Cuban News Agency, 12/06/2007
Renowned American film maker Brian de Palma could not attend the inauguration of the Havana's New Latin American Film Festival on Tuesday, in which his latest film "Redacted" was screened, due to the harsh travel restrictions imposed by Washington.
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Akahata, 12/06/2007
With the support of the Japanese Communist, Democratic, and Social Democratic parties, the House of Councilors in its plenary session on November 28 passed a bill to repeal the Special Measures Law on Iraq that allows the Self-Defense Forces to be dispatched to Iraq.
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Dave Zirin, 12/06/2007
Washington football player Sean Taylor is dead at the age of 24, shot and killed at home in front of his partner and 18-month-old daughter. Four people have already been arrested, three of them teenagers.
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Mark Gruenberg, 12/06/2007
Following in the footsteps of his unsuccessful nepotistic predecessor, Bush regime Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin plans to push through a giveaway to Big Media on Dec. 18.
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Cuban News Agency, 12/05/2007
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that he would continue to raise the banner of socialism in his country, waiting for the day when history would allow it to reach its greatest height.
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Joe Sims, 12/05/2007
Hillary Clinton is on the defensive again today after the report that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program some years ago: Clinton voted for the Senate resolution castigating the Iranian Guards as a terrorist organization.
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The Guardian (Australia), 12/05/2007
There is nothing like a severe defeat to bring out the critics. That is what is happening to John Howard as he sinks slowly into the shadows of politics.
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Matthew Cardinale, 12/05/2007
The Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) sent in five demolition applications to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) containing falsified documents.
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IRINNews.org, 12/05/2007
From the beginning of 2008 the quantity of national food rations delivered freely to all Iraqi families will be further reduced - from 10 to five items, due to lack of government financial support.
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JC Garrett, 12/04/2007
He envisions himself as a great leader who stands on principle, even when he stands alone, and equates his thick-headed stubbornness and uncompromising nature to Lincoln's courage to stand alone for a great cause.
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Morning Star, 12/04/2007
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It's never been difficult to differentiate between the allies of the US and those who prefer the support of working people to the backing of big business and the military.
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Venezuela Solidarity Network, 12/04/2007
With a registered voter turn-out of about 55%, Venezuelan voters rejected two referendum questions asking for approval of a total of 69 amendments to their constitution. Each question was defeated by a margin of 1.5 percentage points.
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Sherwood Ross, 12/04/2007
The Pentagon has denied President Bush issued a directive for it to resume open-air testing of chemical and biological warfare(CBW) agents that were halted by President Richard Nixon in 1969.
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IRINNews.org, 12/04/2007
Displaced families in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, lack essential supplies, including tents, food parcels and medical care, local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) say.
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Iraqi Communist Party, 12/04/2007
In considering political developments, the meeting noted that our country is going through a period of great complexity and difficulty, in which many internal and external factors interact.
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Akahata, 12/04/2007
Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo in the talks urged the prime minister to engage in diplomatic efforts to eradicate terrorism, investigate the defense scandal, and increase the social welfare budget.
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Juan Antonio Borrego, 12/04/2007
The vote on the constitutional referendum yesterday in Venezuela demonstrated the ethics of the Bolivarian Revolution, affirmed President Hugo Chávez in a press conference after the referendum was narrowly defeated.
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