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COMMENTARY: Communism: a viable alternative?
March 20, 2009(Reposted from the Machester Guradian guardian.co.uk) Let's get one thing out of the way to begin with: history is back in fashion. A generation on from Francis Fukuyama's claim that the fall of the Soviet Union...
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Drug cartel violence has political, economic roots
March 19, 2009CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico -- Recent media reports about Mexico picture a country near collapse, with police and army outgunned by well-armed and organized drug cartels. U.S. government travel warnings speak of “small unit combat” taking place...
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Brazils president, Sweeney discuss global economy
March 17, 2009Original source: AFL-CIO President John Sweeney met with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this past weekend, prior to Lula’s White House meeting with President Obama. Lula, a metalworker and internationally recognized trade union leader...
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El Salvador’s FMLN candidate wins presidency, calls for unity
March 17, 2009SAN SALVADOR March 16 (Prensa Latina) In his first message to the nation, El Salvador's President-Elect Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), called for reconciliation and national unity. After counting 91.7...
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‘Charade’ shames Texas
March 17, 2009In the middle of the worst crisis of our lifetimes, the Texas Senate has thrown its full energies into solving a problem that doesn’t exist! Even the Dallas daily paper, usually as anti-worker as any mainstream...
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