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  • COMMENTARY Slime covers GOP Senators Cornyn, Ensign

    COMMENTARY Slime covers GOP Senators Cornyn, Ensign

    June 22, 2009

    Texas Sen. John Cornyn, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, is scrambling to distance himself from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford arrested and awaiting trial on charges of bilking people of $8 billion in a...

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  • Iran opposition: Even violence wont keep us from continuing

    Iran opposition: Even violence wont keep us from continuing

    June 21, 2009 By R. Ae.

    'You can be sure that even violence won’t keep us from continuing.' The great Iranian cinematographer (Kandahar or Safar e Ghandehar (2001)) Mohsen Makhmalbaf has become international spokesman for the reform candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, whose...

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  • Reviving Latino workforce key to rebuilding America

    Reviving Latino workforce key to rebuilding America

    June 21, 2009

    Original source: The recession has hurt all America’s workers, especially Latino workers. Despite their growing political power, Latinos are still at the bottom of the economic ladder. Until the nation enacts policies that help lift Latinos...

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  • South Africa: Serious shortage in antirevtroviral funding

    South Africa: Serious shortage in antirevtroviral funding

    June 21, 2009 By IRIN

    A one-billion rand (US$123 million) shortfall in South Africa's public sector antiretroviral (ARV) programme could jeopardise treatment programmes as soon as September, a health expert has warned.

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  • Climate change brings new diseases

    Climate change brings new diseases

    June 21, 2009

    BERLIN, Jun 19 (IPS) - As its name suggests, the West Nile virus, a leading cause of a form of meningitis and a neuro-invasive disease, has until recently been reported mostly in tropical and sub-tropical African...

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