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  • For Cuba, revolution made all the difference

    For Cuba, revolution made all the difference

    December 30, 2008

    Observers, for example Michel Chossudovsky (GlobalResearch.ca), predict fallout from the collapse of the U.S. economy will dwarf ramifications of the 1930s great depression. Neither, however, affected the United States as seriously as the calamity triggered by...

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  • Cuba Five case to go to Supreme Court

    Cuba Five case to go to Supreme Court

    December 30, 2008

    WASHINGTON: The appeal of the Cuban Five, the anti-terrorist fighters held as political prisoners in the United States, is to be brought before the Supreme Court before January 30, according to one of their defense lawyers....

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  • Israeli strikes pound Gaza, kill 192

    Israeli strikes pound Gaza, kill 192

    December 29, 2008

    GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing nearly 200 people and wounding...

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  • Israeli Communists condemn attacks on Gaza, call for another direction toward peace

    Israeli Communists condemn attacks on Gaza, call for another direction toward peace

    December 29, 2008

    The Communist Party of Israel and Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) condemned the deadly Dec. 27 attack by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of over...

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  • Send greetings to the Cuban Five

    Send greetings to the Cuban Five

    December 23, 2008

    We take the occasion of the beginning of a new year to urge readers to write to the Cuban Five. Antonio, Fernando, Gerardo, Rene and Ramon have been in U.S. federal prisons for ten years. They...

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