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Different Drummers: indigenous rights and corporate free trade in South America

January 27, 2008

Indigenous rights renewal in Latin America flourishes in some quarters, but there are many reminders of the continued misery of first peoples at the hands of propertied and commercial classes. In Brazil, especially in Mato Grosso...

China, Cuba by the numbers

January 27, 2008

Public health statistics reflect overall social well being. Educational levels, nutrition, housing, preventative health care, access to urgent care, and hopes for a decent life are all big factors in what overall health looks like. That...

Lets not bomb Iran

January 26, 2008

Iran has a lot more oil than we have in the U.S. We envy them that. However, that does not make them an evil empire as President Bush indicated several years ago. The fact that Iranians...

World notes: Jan. 26

January 25, 2008

Belgium: European Roma suffer persecution Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, member of the European Parliament (EP), charged Jan. 16 that the European Commission has failed the Roma people by failing to implement anti-discrimination measures passed in April 2005....

Cuba holds elections, jumps to third in world for number of women elected

January 22, 2008

Cuba’s election season ended on a rainy Jan. 20 when 8.1 million citizens, age 16 or over — 95 percent of those eligible to vote — chose 614 delegates to the National Assembly and 1,201 delegates...