Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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U.S.
Cuba travel bill vote delayed
October 15, 2010It looks like Americans will have to wait longer to travel to Cuba.
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U.S.
New immigration bill introduced in Senate
October 11, 2010Senators Robert Menendez and Patrick Leahy have introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill, and some immigrant rights activists think there is a chance of getting it passed before January.
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Opinion
Undocumented immigration in international perspective
October 11, 2010There are at least 214 million people living outside their countries of origin, either as naturalized citizens, legal noncitizens, temporary workers or undocumented. At least 100 million of these are in the labor force.
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U.S.
GOP drags Virginia backwards
October 8, 2010Cuccinelli was the first state attorney general to announce that he was suing to overturn the Obama health care reform, has fought scientific study and has even flirted with the "birthers."
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World
Left advances in Brazil, runoff elections scheduled
October 6, 2010Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff racked up the largest vote total in Sunday's presidential election in Brazil, though she barely missed the 50 percent mark necessary to avoid a runoff
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World
Ecuador coup fails, president rescued
October 1, 2010A coup attempt against Ecuador's left-wing president, Rafael Correa, failed when elite troops rescued the president from rioting policemen.
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World
Colombian senator under investigation for relations with FARC
September 30, 2010Senator Piedad Cordoba Ruiz has been declared guilty of "relations with the FARC," threatening national unity and treason.
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Opinion
The fruits of corporate globalization: a review of “El Traspatio”
September 23, 2010This film is a searing and realistic depiction of what international monopoly capital does to the lives of ordinary working men and women.
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