Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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U.S.
Border Patrol accused in immigrant death
June 2, 2010Mexican human rights defenders are accusing the U.S. Border Patrol of beating, kicking and tasering a Mexican undocumented immigrant to death in San Diego, Calif.
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World
Honduras coup reverberations continue
June 1, 2010Four months after a new president, Porfirio Lobo of the right-wing National Party, took power, killings continue and he has still not achieved full legitimacy in Latin America.
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Opinion
British Petroleum and friends: The face of the enemy
May 21, 2010When we rail against corporate abuses on these pages and elsewhere, we sometimes forget that a corporation is not a person.
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Opinion
A dubious immigration proposal
May 10, 2010Senate Democratic leaders have presented an outline for an immigration reform bill, but many will find it wanting.
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Opinion
Messing around with our citizenship
May 10, 2010Taking advantage of the failed bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square, for which Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, has been arrested, U.S. Sens. Joe Lieberman, Independent-Conn., and Scott Brown, R-Mass.,...
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U.S.
Legalizing undocumented immigrants would boost economy
April 19, 2010The legalization of the 11 to 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could raise the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of this country by $1.5 trillion over 10 years
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World
Death of South African rightist highlights ongoing problems
April 13, 2010The death of far-right white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche, beaten and slashed on his farm on April 3, highlights problems South Africa still faces on labor, land and racism.
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Opinion
“Gone with the Wind” days in Virginia
April 8, 2010In the 2006 Senate election in Virginia, incumbent Republican George Allen was defeated by Democrat Jim Webb after undergoing what is called here his "macaca moment."
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