World
U.S. threats to Venezuelas revolution escalate
February 8, 2006Aggressive maneuvers against Venezuela from the Bush government have reached new heights. Here are some indicators. That a coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was under way when opposition parties opted out of Venezuela’s December parliamentary...
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Cuba news briefs
February 3, 2006Cuba travel under the gun The Bush administration is cracking down on what it sees as illegal travel to Cuba. A foretaste of what lay ahead was provided in the May 2004 report of the “Commission...
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Venezuelan discounted oil arrives in Philly
February 3, 2006PHILADELPHIA — On Jan. 27 Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) announced that Citgo, a U.S. subsidiary of the publicly-owned Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA, was going to begin shipping 5 million gallons of discounted heating oil here...
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Hunters history exposed in Congo film
February 3, 2006Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Peter Bate, director 2004, Belgium/UK, ArtMattan Productions (U.S. distributor) 100 min., English/French/Dutch with English subtitles An African proverb reminds us, “Until the lions have their historians, tales of the...
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WORLD NOTES
February 3, 2006Nepal: Trade union leaders imprisoned An edict from King Gyanendra of Nepal has resulted in the arrest of 100 leaders of Nepal’s seven-party political opposition and two top leaders of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade...
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