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Thomas Riggins, 10/25/2007
The philosopher Jerry Fodor is rightfully upset with some of the nonsense coming out of Academia disguised as science and dressed up in arguments purportedly derived from Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Granma International, 10/25/2007
Replying to three spurious initiatives for Cuba proposed by George Bush in Washington on October 24, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque set out 12 points “covering what the U.S. president should propose as aid” to the island.
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Ramzy Baroud, 10/24/2007
The last time I spoke publicly in the United States before my current tour was nearly four years ago. During this time I had traveled the world, passing my message to people in nearly 20 countries.
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Langston Hughes, 10/24/2007
Lenin walks around the world....
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Robert Griffiths, 10/24/2007
At 10 am on October 25 1917, an appeal "To the Citizens of Russia!" was published in the Russian capital Petrograd. It proclaimed: "The provisional government has been deposed...."
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Joel Wendland, 10/24/2007
Certainly in its coverage of the negotiations between the autoworkers and the Big Three, the media's coverage has been generally skewed to favor the interests and aims of the companies, while disparaging the workers as either irresponsible or ignorant of their best interests.
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David Zirin, 10/24/2007
Jason "Big Sexy" Whitlock has told me to "mind own damn business" when it comes to his mission to lead a new Civil Rights movement against "Black idiots." But whether you are talking about Whitlock or someone hanging a noose on a tree, there is a problem when you say, "Just ignore it and it will go away."
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IRINNews.org, 10/24/2007
Dozens of families have been leaving villages near the Iraq-Turkey border since 21 October, joining the hundreds who have already fled the area as tension rises between Turkish-Kurdish rebels and the Turkish army.
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Xinhuanet, 10/24/2007
The Communist Party of China (CPC) closed its 17th National Congress on Sunday, endorsing the incorporation of the scientific outlook on development into the Party Constitution and installing a new 371-member Central Committee and a 127-member Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
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Prensa Latina, 10/24/2007
Ecuador needs a deep change in its power structures and the redistribution of its resources, to guarantee the rights of all nationalities, a leader of the indigenous movement Luis Macas asserted on Tuesday.
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Combined Sources, 10/23/2007
We the undersigned parties express our grave concern with the heightening tensions in the Persian Gulf region emanating from the US militaristic and hegemonic stance in its conflict with Iran (including Bush’s latest statement on September 12th 2007).
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Prabir Purkayastha, 10/23/2007
The Congress and its spokespersons have been on overdrive selling a number of myths about the benefits of the India-US Nuclear Deal.
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Granma International, 10/23/2007
Your genocidal blockade, your support for terrorism, your murderous Cuban Adjustment Act, your wet-foot/dry-foot policy, your protection of the worst terrorists in this hemisphere, your unjust punishment of the five Cuban heroes who exposed the danger posed to U.S. citizens and those of other countries of dying in mid-flight, must all end.
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Anna Pha, 10/23/2007
The [ultra-right] Liberal Party launched its official vote-buying election campaign with the promise of another $34 billion in income tax cuts over the next three years.
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Jonathan Springston, 10/23/2007
A bipartisan Georgia House of Representatives study panel on reforming eyewitness identification procedures held the third in a series of hearings on Monday, October 22, 2007.
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Dr. Glen Barry, 10/23/2007
I remain deeply uncertain and even ambivalent regarding their desirability and ultimate effectiveness. Nuclear and clean coal energies are the logical next technological steps in the progression of human dominance of the Earth.
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National Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, 10/23/2007
The aim of this humanitarian, non-political campaign is to put pressure on the Israeli government in order to lift the siege imposed on the population of Gaza.
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Joel Wendland, 10/23/2007
Meatpacking giant Smithfield Foods is suing the United Food and Commercial Workers, the union that many Smithfield workers have chosen to represent them in their unionizing efforts at the company.
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Scott Marshall, 10/23/2007
The other thing that is at play here is globalization. The US market is still a hugely important market for the auto companies, and they need to have market share here, even though all three of the Big 3 have huge investments overseas and rake in huge profits overseas.
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Xinhuanet, 10/22/2007
The Civic Platform party (PO), Poland's largest opposition party, won a broad lead over the ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) in Sunday's early parliamentary elections
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