January

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15 Senate Dems Not Cosponsors on Minimum Wage Increase

While a bill to pass the federal minimum wage passed the US House just last week, an identical bill in the US Senate is uncertain to pass at this time, particularly when 15 Senate Democrats have not cosponsored the bill.

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Ecuador Finds the Courage to “Just Say No”

Throughout December of 2006, tensions began to flare between Ecuador and Colombia over the latter’s continued policy of sanctioning aerially-dispersed defoliants as a means to destroy narcotic crops along the two countries’ shared border.

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Movie Review: The Last King of Scotland

As the Scottish nationalists stand poised to take power at Holyrood after 300 years of the UK union, it seems somewhat ironic that this week sees the release of a film called The Last King Of Scotland.

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Confused About Venezuela?

Over the past few days, major newspapers in the United States, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, have published editorials aggressively and harshly criticizing recent declarations and decisions made by re-elected President Hugo Chávez and his cabinet.

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Six Nations chiefs return to Council House

In the early morning of New Year's Day, the Six Nations people signalled a turning point in their history by removing the lock that barred the Haudenosaunee Chiefs from the building that was the seat of their government since before Confederation.

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Paradoxes Doom Bush’s ‘New Strategy’ in Iraq

President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s go-it-alone approach will only extend the failure of the 2003 military invasion.

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Impeach Disney and General Electric

By any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now.  This illustrates the worst problem with our media.  It's not how they cover stories.  It's how they do not cover stories. 

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Sun, Wind, and Tidal Power Obviate Need for Nuke Plants

Although the nuclear power lobby claims 'we need all energy options,' there is no need for the atomic choice when so many safe, renewable, alternatives are becoming economically feasible.

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'Capitalism seriously damages your health' says Communist union leader

'The Attorney-General should issue a government health warning that capitalism seriously harms you and those around you', Graham Stevenson told the Communist Party executive committee at the weekend.

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India: ‘We Are Committed To Making Industrial Progress’

We have consolidated the success of the Left Front government set up in 1977, and we must give it a legal characteristic. Today 78 per cent of the land in Bengal is with the marginal farmers. There is no parallel instance in the whole of the country.

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