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  • Repression mounts in Colombia

    Repression mounts in Colombia

    June 16, 2009

    The militaristic Colombian government, servant of moneyed interests at home and abroad and tight with paramilitaries and narco-traffickers, is lashing out at shadows, represented as dangers to the state. President Alvaro Uribe is seeking a third...

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  • The evidence that Shell tried to bury

    The evidence that Shell tried to bury

    June 16, 2009

    (morningstaronline.co.uk) The Morning Star can reveal today the evidence that Shell tried to hide with last week's $15.5 million out-of-court settlement over its activities in Nigeria. The oil giant paid the money to Nigerian campaigners to...

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  • OPINION: Electoral coup d’etat in Iran

    OPINION: Electoral coup d’etat in Iran

    June 16, 2009

    The people of Iran woke up Saturday morning to find not only that the election had been stolen from the popular opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, but that any means of protesting against the electoral fraud and...

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  • Vietnam: Doi moi and the World Crisis

    Vietnam: Doi moi and the World Crisis

    June 14, 2009

    (Translated by Guy Langloy) (l'Humanite) The world is shifting its base. In Asia, Latin America and other continents, the devastating effects of this historical crisis of capitalism do not necessarily lead to pessimism, but rather quite...

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  • Call to end Zimbabwe international sanctions

    Call to end Zimbabwe international sanctions

    June 14, 2009

    Original source: Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has appealed for an end to sanctions and more international investment in South Africa. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa summit in Cape Town, Mr Mutambara...

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