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April 14 – April 20, 2008 article archives
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John Moore, 04/15/2008
This is the book of the film that has won awards in the US for best documentary. Interviews with US top officials, generals and war reporters, interspersed with incisive summaries by author Charles H Ferguson, throw glaring light on the US disaster in Iraq.
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Combined Sources, 04/15/2008
Compensation schemes for top executives at financial companies helped create the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the new Executive PayWatch website (www.paywatch.org) launched today by the AFL-CIO reveals.
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Sherwood Ross, 04/14/2008
Even if a Guantanamo prisoner is acquitted on all counts at his trial, the Pentagon may still not release him on grounds he might return to the battlefield, according to an article in the April 14th issue of The New Yorker.
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Kimball Cariou, 04/14/2008
It seems that every spring, another crop of enviro-fakers emerges, just in time for Earth Day. This trend has recently become almost year-round, as politicians vie for recognition as "greens." Last December, George W. Bush signed legislation mandating a six-fold increase in ethanol fuel to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022, calling the requirement key to weaning the U.S. from imported oil.
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Matthew Cardinale, 04/14/2008
(APN) ATLANTA – Atlanta Housing Authority’s Vice President for External Affairs, Barney Simms, made a fraudulent claim to the City Council of Atlanta, on Tuesday, March 11, 2008, about its promise to consult with the Community Development and Human Resources Committee regarding demolition applications.
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Jalal Alavi, 04/14/2008
As George W. Bush’s final term in office will soon come to an end, many around the world are wondering what his next move will be with regard to Iran and its controversial nuclear program.
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Manuel E. Yepe, 04/14/2008
If the Western press had paid as much attention to the changes occurring in Cuba since 1959 to date as they are about the current changes, readers around the world – and in particular, those from the United States – would understand the characteristics of the Cuban revolution and understand what is happening.
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Earth Talk, 04/14/2008
Whether wildlife officials in a given region consider a dead beached whale a biohazard or not is local decision, but nevertheless experts agree that only trained professionals should go anywhere near a dead wild animal to prevent the spread of bacterial infection alone.
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Norman Markowitz, 04/14/2008
When I was a child, I remember watching a Hollywood B horror movie, “Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman” which frightened me. I was reminded of it when while reading chapter three of Gerald Horne’s Blows Against Empire, “China’s Peaceful Rise/U.S Imperialism’s Inexorable Decline.”
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