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World Notes: Voting for War…

March 26, 2008

Canada: Troops stay in Afghanistan Canada’s Parliament voted 198-77 on March 13 to back an “Independent Panel” recommendation to continue deployment of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan until 2011. Parliament also demanded that 1,000 additional NATO soldiers...

Deep-freeze on Cuba could be thawing

March 25, 2008

Do 50 years of U.S. intransigence toward Cuba mean we are stuck in a political ice age on the issue, immune from change, or is that era already ending? President George Bush seems blind to trickles...

South Korea lurches to right after presidential elections

March 21, 2008

South Korea has lurched to the right after Lee Myung-bak of the Grand National Party was elected president. Many are now worried about the disintegration of friendly ties to the north, serious labor and human rights...

We will not be divided, Bolivias president vows

March 21, 2008

He broke the colonial bar on indigenous rule, and for two years Bolivian President Evo Morales has battled multinationals and large landowners. Contrasts are stark between politicians representing European-descended land and business owners and Morales allies...

World notes: March 22, 2008

March 21, 2008

Cuba: Literacy milestone reached Speaking to reporters, Cuban Minister of Education Luis Ignacio Gomez indicated that as of March 13 three million people worldwide have learned to read and write through the Cuban method of literacy...