Bush has “full confidence” in Paul Wolfowitz, head of the World Bank and designer of much of the ideological justification for the Iraq war. Wolfowitz is under a cloud because he put his girlfriend in a top job and set her (excessive) salary, not to mention his nose-thumbing at the world community. This is the latest in a long line of Bush’s “confidence” tricks.
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April 28, 2007
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Abridged from a letter to Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based thinktank, by Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.S.
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April 28, 2007
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April 28, 2007
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Chris Hedges book, “American Fascists,” is a hard-hitting and thought-provoking critique of the U.S. Christian right. He explains the grave threat to democratic freedoms posed by them. Hedges is a former New York Times reporter.
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April 28, 2007
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This poem was written during a five-day sit-in of high school students at St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s office after the Missouri Board of Education voted 5-1 to strip accreditation from the 32,000-student St. Louis City Public Schools on March 22.
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April 28, 2007
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El crecimiento asombrante del sector multimillonario del antisindicalismo en EEUU ha ido mano en mano con el declive de nuestra base manufacturera, el auge de la ultraderecha y la pérdida de membresía sindical durante los últimos treinta y pico de años.
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April 28, 2007
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Los cazadores indígenas inuit se están cayendo por el hielo siempre más delgado. Por primera vez se han visto delfines. Ya no hay suficiente nieve como para construir iglúes para albergarse en los viajes de caza.
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April 28, 2007
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Cada mes, Jennifer Pae entrega cientos de dólares en pagos para los $40.000 que debe en préstamos estudiantiles que financiaron sus estudios en la Universidad de California en San Diego.
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April 28, 2007
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El terrorista Luis Posada Carriles salió de la cárcel el 19 de abril y se fue a vivir en la casa de su esposa en Miami después de que un tribunal aprobó su libertad bajo fianza. Su juicio por mentir y fraude al entrar territorio estadounidense empieza el 11 de mayo en El Paso, Tejas.
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April 28, 2007
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