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WORLDNOTES Equatorial Guinea, Australia, Afghanistan, UN, Guyana, Cuba
July 17, 2009Equatorial Guinea: Corporations, banks back corruption Oil money has been diverted to the ruling few while people languish “in poverty worse than in Afghanistan or Chad,” according to a Human Rights Watch report issued last week....
Read moreVenceremos Brigade sends open letter to President Obama
July 17, 2009Open Letter to President Obama from the Venceremos Brigade July 13, 2009 President Barack Obama The White House Washington DC Dear President Obama, On August 3rd, 2009, over 140 of us will be returning from Cuba...
Read moreColombian government targets Communist leader
July 17, 2009This July, the Colombian Communist Party (PCC) marked its 79th anniversary. Its newsweekly Voz - the “only national opposition newspaper in the country,” according to a U.K. solidarity web site - published a 2500th issue in...
Read moreHillary Clinton outlines new mindset for U.S. foreign policy
July 16, 2009WASHINGTON — In a wide-ranging speech at the Council on Foreign Relations today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined how the Obama adminstration’s foreign policy aims to reshape the U.S. role in the world.
Read moreEDITORIAL Climate change: Taking responsibility, aiding the vulnerable
July 16, 2009As negotiations continue on worldwide goals and timetables to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, it is increasingly clear that industrially developed countries must take responsibility for the great bulk of the pollution that has caused global...
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