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  • PWW events salute peoples leaders

    PWW events salute peoples leaders

    December 15, 2006

    Dec. 3 was a day the People’s Weekly World can be proud of. Still celebrating the results of the Nov. 7 elections, readers held banquets and dinners in various places across the country, attracting elected officials,...

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  • Colombian prisoner holds Bush prosecutors at bay

    Colombian prisoner holds Bush prosecutors at bay

    December 15, 2006

    An extraordinary trial, remarkable among other things for a novel legal doctrine unveiled by the Bush administration during the course of it, ended as a mistrial Nov. 21 in Washington. The jury could not reach a...

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  • War at Christmas time

    War at Christmas time

    December 15, 2006

    The forked desert road leads to nowhere. Each crossroad, each corner of a dusty street Evokes not the sleepy town of Bethlehem, But the chaos found in Fullujah or In the gutted houses of Tikrit, Along...

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  • Two films, two journeys

    Two films, two journeys

    December 15, 2006

    Movie ReviewA few years ago, the entire life’s work of French communist director Robert Guédiguian was screened in a retrospective tribute at the Toronto International Film Festival. Guédiguian is unique in that he has chosen the...

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  • Book Review: The question of torture, then and now

    Book Review: The question of torture, then and now

    December 15, 2006

    Henri Alleg’s book “The Question” is a searing, firsthand account of the torture that the author experienced during the Battle of Algiers. Although it was first published in 1958, it is a book that should still...

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