Government officials have admitted that American companies are paying millions of dollars in bribes to military officers to win billions in contracts for work in Iraq, according to numerous press reports last week. 
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| Sept. 8, 2007
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Una alianza que agrupa a miles de puertorriqueños procedentes de docenas de grupos pro independencia, religiosos, pacifistas, culturales y ambientalistas, sindicatos, partidos y movimientos políticos, organizaciones de juventud, de artistas, de feministas y activistas pro Vieques participaron este domingo pasado en una marcha pacifica a favor de la paz y contra la 129na Convención de la Asociación de la Guardia Nacional norteamericana que se celebró el fin de semana en San Juan.
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José Padilla, un ciudadano estadounidense de padres puertorriqueños y un converso al Islam, fue declarado culpable por un jurado federal en Miami el 16 de agosto de tres cargos de conspiración y apoyo material al terrorismo. Es posible que el fallo sea apelado.
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NORTHBROOK, Ill. — A lively overflow town hall meeting in this suburban swing congressional district demanded Republican Rep. Mark Kirk “take a stand” with the nation’s majority and stop rubber-stamping the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy.
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ST. LOUIS — As the heat outside broke records, over 400 veterans and peace activists from across the country pledged to create “record-breaking peace” at the 22nd Annual Veterans for Peace National Convention, held here Aug. 15-19.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress for $50 billion this month to continue funding the Iraq war, the Washington Post reports. But meanwhile, Iraqi Communists charge, “The Americans are doing everything they can to prevent Iraqis from exercising their right to self-determination.”
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La resistencia puertorriqueña en contra de la guerra estadounidense tiene en Irak se lleva a cabo dentro del marco de las luchas por la afirmación nacional y la justicia económica. La oposición al reclutamiento militar y el hostigamiento de activistas jóvenes por el FBI muestra que la juventud está al centro de estas luchas
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That fateful summer, 8:15. The roar of a B-29 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, an enormous blast — silence — hell on Earth.
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The Iraq war statistics shown on screen at the end of Charles Ferguson’s’ debut documentary, “No End in Sight,” consciously wallop you back to the title. The numbers are not easy to swallow, but they’re probably the only clear issue in the movie.
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ST. LOUIS — As the heat outside broke records, over 400 veterans and peace activists from across the country pledged to create “record breaking peace” at the 22nd Annual Veterans for Peace National Convention, held here Aug. 15-19.
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