Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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Secretary of Labor Solis signs migrant workers rights agreements with Latin American countries
September 5, 2011U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis signed agreements with three more Latin American countries (for a total of six) on the protection of certain rights of migrant workers. The right wing is, predictably, yelling "betrayal".
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Slovak government on anti-communist rampage
September 1, 2011New legislation could end up sending members of the country's Communist Party and other leftists to prison for up to three years because of their beliefs and speech.
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Cuba denounces inclusion in State Department “sponsors of terrorism” list
August 24, 2011Once again, the U.S. Department of State has included Cuba, along with Sudan, Syria and Iran, in its list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism."
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Libya: NATO sets dangerous precedent
August 24, 2011Rebel troops have broken through to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The NATO intervention has been decisive, and that should trouble us.
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Argentina president Fernandez does well in primary elections
August 22, 2011The incumbent president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, confounded skeptics and hostile media by doing extremely well in primary elections on August 14. However, supporters warn that the right wing opposition still may have tricks...
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Mexico: New government attacks against electrical workers
August 19, 2011The Mexican government under President Felipe Calderon, of the right wing National Action Party, has launched a new attack on the militant Mexican Electrical Workers Union.
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CIA presence provokes fear in Mexico
August 12, 2011A controversy has arisen over U.S. agents operating in Mexico, with the full cooperation of the right-wing government of President Felipe Calderon.
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CIA use of immunization program has troubling history
August 8, 2011In search of Bin Laden the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency offered immunization shots against Hepatitis B to the poor people of Abbottabad, in Pakistan, as a CIA front program.
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