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European Union adopts Big Brother directive
January 6, 2006News Analysis The European Parliament launched an unprecedented attack on civil liberties and the democratic rights of the citizens of the 25 European Union (EU) member countries last month by legalizing the surveillance of private citizens’...
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World Notes
January 6, 2006Argentina: Worker takeover successful When Argentina’s economy took a nosedive four years ago, the San Justo glassworks in Buenos Aires was one of many enterprises that went bankrupt. For months a group of workers at the...
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Cuba waging fight against corruption
January 6, 2006Cuban President Fidel Castro, speaking Nov. 17 at the University of Havana, asked, “Do you believe that this revolutionary socialist process can fall apart, or not?” His answer: “This revolution can destroy itself. … We can...
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Ready for the coming crisis with Bolivia?
January 6, 2006Commentary Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) won an absolute majority in the Bolivian presidential elections Dec. 18. He will be sworn in on Jan. 22. Morales comes from the Aymara ethnic group, who,...
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Venezuelas 21st-century socialism
January 6, 2006On a recent trip to Latin America, President George W. Bush said people must choose between “two competing visions.” One, he said, “pursues representative government, integration into the world community and freedom’s transformative power for individuals.”...
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