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WORLD NOTES: January 17
January 9, 2009Peru: Witchhunt builds Late last month Judge Omar Pimentel ruled that 13 labor and leftist political leaders would be confined to their homes during a 15-day investigation period. They included Renan Raffo Munoz, head of the...
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Why do they hate Cuba?
January 8, 2009The U.S. government assumes that regular rules don’t apply to Cuba. Take for example the arms shipments proceeding from Honduras to Florida. Neither the U.S. military nor a military contractor is involved. Instead, Sanco Global Arms...
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U.S. hidden role in Hamas rise to power
January 6, 2009Reposted from AlterNet, www.alternet.org. The United States bears much of the blame for the ongoing bloodshed in the Gaza Strip and nearby parts of Israel. Indeed, were it not for misguided Israeli and American policies, Hamas...
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Israel: Over 150,000 protest Gaza military operation
January 6, 2009Over 150,000 people demonstrated Jan. 3 in Israel against Operation Cast Lead: in the northern Arab town of Sakhnin and in Tel-Aviv. The demonstration in Sakhnin was, by far, the biggest such protest in Israel. According...
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Communist Party denounces Gaza invasion
January 5, 2009The Communist Party released the following statement on Jan. 4. The Communist Party of the USA expresses its outrage at Israel's invasion of Gaza, carried out in defiance of world public opinion.
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