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Women's International Democratic Federation, 12/08/2008
All the participants concluded that imperialist and its politics of rapine’s wars, blockades, aggressions and invasions are sources of people’s exploitation as well as working people, women and men.
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John Bachtell, 12/08/2008
It’s hard to overestimate the change Nov. 4 has brought in its wake. We have entered a new era, with a new political dynamic calling for new tactics to advance the agenda shaped in the course of the campaign to elect Barack Obama.
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Cuban News Agency, 12/07/2008
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(Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara.)
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HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7(acn) The film Che by renowned US movie maker Steven Soderbergh was premiered here on Saturday during the 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema.
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Dave Zirin, 12/06/2008
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week: all Plaxico, all the time. There's nothing like an NFL player shooting a hole in his own leg in a packed nightclub to become our latest walking, talking weapon of mass distraction.
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Marcos Alfonso, 12/06/2008
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc in Europe, uni-polarity took control of the world and the progressive left practically disappeared from the scene.
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FAIR, 12/06/2008
Corporate media are cheering what they suggest are signs that President-elect Barack Obama will break his campaign promise and defy both U.S. and Iraqi public opinion to keep combat troops in Iraq for longer than his 16-month withdrawal timetable.
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Political Affairs, 12/06/2008
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(WIDF President Marcia Campos. Courtesy WIDF)
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WIDF was founded in 1945, December, during the post-war against the fascism, in a Congress held in Paris and the first president was the humanist and scientist Eugenie Cotton. Since then, WIDF fights against fascism, neo-liberalism and imperialism.
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Joel Wendland, 12/05/2008
Auto workers are fighting back. Over the past weeks, right-wing pundits, the mainstream media, and many in Congress have opposed providing the automakers with a requested $34 billion loan as part of the $700 billion package already passed last October to help the companies avoid looming bankruptcy.
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Cuban News Agency, 12/05/2008
Twelve US business associations, including the Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to US President-elect Barack Obama
urging him to lift the almost fifty-year-old trade, financial and economic blockade of Cuba.
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Ramzy Baroud, 12/05/2008
World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after the Iraqi parliament ratified the agreement on Thursday, 27 November.
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Xinhuanet, 12/05/2008
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(Courtesy of Obama for America)
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The Iraqi government said Thursday that US President-elect Barack Obama has called Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and confirmed his commitment to responsible withdrawal for US troops from Iraq.
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Akahata, 12/05/2008
The Japanese government on November 28 decided to pull out the Air Self-Defense Force from Iraq, ending its operation in support of US forces. After receiving an order from Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu, the ASDF unit will return to Japan.
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PA Staff Writers, 12/05/2008
Small business owners are desperate for health care reform, according to a survey released this week by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In fact more than one in three small business owners who provide some health benefits for their employees list the rising cost of health care as their top concern.
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Sherwood Ross, 12/05/2008
Who says there are no slaves in America? The greatest domestic issue facing President-elect Obama is not the bailout of the bankers and insurers but the task of lifting tens of millions of hard-working American wage-slaves out of dire poverty.
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Anna Pha, 12/05/2008
Labor was elected 12 months ago with high expectations that it would get rid of the Howard government’s repressive, anti-union, anti-worker industrial relations laws, WorkChoices.
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Combined Sources, 12/04/2008
What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis?
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Cuban News Agency, 12/04/2008
Cuba has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 3.5 million tons since the implementation of the Energy Revolution program, an idea of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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Iraqi Communist Party, 12/04/2008
The global financial crisis, with its enormous proportions that is storming capitalist economies today, is an expression of the internal contradictions of globalized capitalism, revealing once again the inability of the system to resolve these contradictions.
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Evo Morales, 12/04/2008
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Bolivian President Evo Morales.
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Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather...
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PA Staff Writers, 12/04/2008
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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger.
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As the Big Three executives return to Congress to plead for new loans to bail out the auto industry, political debates erupted again this week over whether or not the federal government has managed the economic crisis adequately.
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