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Movies you might have missed: Missing
March 30, 2015The 1982 film Missing, directed by Costa Gravas, dramatizes the case of Charles Harmon, an American freelance journalist, living and working in Chile.
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Remembering a tragedy: How Cyprus became a nation divided
July 24, 2014The illegal Turkish occupation has now gone on for some 40 years, and progressive minded people the world over should take a keen interest.
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Ukrainian ultra-rightists given major cabinet posts in government
February 28, 2014The Svoboda Party has scored six cabinet ministries in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday. Svoboda is an ultra-right, anti-Semitic, Russophobic party with its base of support in the Western Ukraine.
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Forty years after fascist coup, Chile may elect socialist, again
September 11, 2013Forty years ago today Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a U.S.-abetted coup because he was a socialist; in two months Chileans may elect Michelle Bachelet, another socialist.
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Honduras powerbrokers beat up on the poor
February 14, 2011In the year after Porfirio Lobo became president of Honduras the disaster for the Honduran people has become clear.
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