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Presidential election to be held in Trinidad and Tobago
February 14, 2013The president, is, like the Queen in England, the nominal head of state, however, in this island nation the post is largely ceremonial.
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Obama, coalition politics, and the struggle for reforms
February 14, 2013Coalition politics and reform struggles are anything but pure; they are, by nature, a polyglot; an uneasy amalgamation of disparate forces.
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It’s simple: Talk, don’t shoot
February 14, 2013It's not complicated. Less guns equals less murders. But arms sales are through the roof now.
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Union leaders wish Obama had come out for right to organize
February 14, 2013Union leaders see the weakening of union rights and the drop in union membership numbers as key factors in the backward movement of the middle class.
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U.S. a factor in 6 million Congo deaths
February 14, 2013Lumumba's murder - "the country's original sin" - was motivated by the U.S. desire to control the Congo's resources.
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