Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Socialists punished in Portuguese parliamentary elections
June 6, 2011The ruling Socialist Party was severely punished in Portugal's parliamentary elections on June 5.
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World
Greece: A nation with its back to the wall?
May 31, 2011For Greece to thumb its nose at the international elites and win would set a precedent for many other nations.
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World
Police riot in Barcelona
May 31, 2011Friday's bloody police action against demonstration in Barcelona's beautiful Plaza Catalunya has led to calls for the resignation of the center-right government of Catalonia.
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World
Right and left gain in Spain elections
May 25, 2011On Election Day, the governing socialists took a drubbing, losing to the People's Party and its right-wing allies in all provincial governments and most local ones.
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World
Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal has international repercussions
May 23, 2011The case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is widely seen as another case of powerful and wealthy men thinking they have the right to sexually exploit women in subordinate positions.
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World
Cuba’s oil prospects pose dilemma for U.S.
May 16, 2011On May 12, the Cuban government took advantage of an international meeting on oil drilling safety in Trinidad and Tobago to announce that drilling is about to begin for offshore wells in deep water off Cuba's...
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Opinion
Will Obama meetings on immigration reform bear fruit?
May 5, 2011The meetings were apparently a response to pressure on the administration to back off of its aggressive immigration enforcement efforts.
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World
Is the “war on drugs” in Mexico leading to a police state?
April 28, 2011The new National Security Law would give the military and state security the right to use force on the simple declaration that they constitute a national security threat.
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