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  • World Social Forum spotlights inequalities

    World Social Forum spotlights inequalities

    February 2, 2007

    NAIROBI, Kenya (IPS) — The 7th World Social Forum wound to a close here after five days of dialogue, art, poetry, dance, drama and protests led by participants from around the globe who believe “another world...

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  • CIA, Congress intervening in Venezuelas affairs

    CIA, Congress intervening in Venezuelas affairs

    January 31, 2007

    CIA chief Michael Hayden recently assured a congressional intelligence committee that the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela is of prime agency concern. Outgoing intelligence head John Negroponte testified that Washington had a “good position in terms...

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  • Womens rights are a vital issue in Iraq

    Womens rights are a vital issue in Iraq

    January 26, 2007

    This is an edited version of a presentation on Iraq’s constitution organized by the Iraqi Centre for Legal Studies last month in London. The constitution was approved in a national referendum Oct. 15, 2005, with a...

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  • Communist Party leader appears On the Money

    Communist Party leader appears On the Money

    January 25, 2007

    Watch New York Communist Party Chair Elena Mora on CNBC’s “On the Money.”

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  • Carter condemns Israeli/U.S. policy toward Palestine

    Carter condemns Israeli/U.S. policy toward Palestine

    January 19, 2007

    Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid By Jimmy Carter Simon & Schuster, 2006 Hardcover, 288 pp., $27 Book review Books by former presidents are usually the material for historians and history buffs. Readers look for revelations explaining decisions...

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