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  • Ecuador celebrates new constitution

    Ecuador celebrates new constitution

    October 4, 2008

    “Today Ecuador has decided on a new country.” — President Rafael Correa President Correa had promised to resign if voters failed to approve Ecuador’s new constitution in the Sept. 28 referendum. That evening celebrations filled city...

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  • WORLD NOTES: October 4

    WORLD NOTES: October 4

    October 3, 2008

    Venezuela: Human Rights Watch official expelled Accusing Jose Miguel Vivanco of visiting Venezuela to sow confusion, the government expelled the head of the Americas section of Human Rights Watch on Sept. 18. HRW recently issued a...

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  • Billy Bragg sounds off on Wall Street mess

    Billy Bragg sounds off on Wall Street mess

    October 3, 2008

    'The response of Main Street to the idea of bailing out Wall Street is all about Main Street wanting some accountability from the capitalist system,' said musical legend and political activist Billy Bragg in a recent...

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  • An appeal from the Cuban Five

    An appeal from the Cuban Five

    October 1, 2008

    The following is a letter from Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, who is one of the five Cuban men imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism. Known as the Cuban Five, these men were in the U.S....

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  • Crisis in Germanys Social Democratic Party

    Crisis in Germanys Social Democratic Party

    September 30, 2008

    BERLIN — The big weekend blowout in Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) demonstrates how to cut off your nose to spite your face. In a series of small, smaller and smallest secret gatherings the party leaders...

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