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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 7, 2009

  Rastafarian brethren outnumber 'sistren'- Bucks trend in Christian churches

Athaliah Reynolds, Sunday Gleaner Reporter: Rastafarians chant at the public viewing of the late Cedella Marley Booker. - File SINCE THEIR explosion on the local scene in the 1930s, members of the Rastafarianism religion have bucked the trend in food, dress, language and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 9, 2009

  WWII, a war which changed the world

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military correspondent Ilya Kramnik) - World War II was the bloodiest war in human history. It ended in Europe on May 9, 1945, and continued for another four months, until Japan's surrender, although its outcome had already been predetermined. Participants in the war began to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 29, 2009

  Imagine a World Without Seafood for Supper -- It's Nearer Than You Think

By Andrew Purvis, The Observer UK: As I step off the train at Heysel, the vast art deco structure of the Palais du Centenaire rises like a cathedral. With its four soaring buttresses topped by statues, the Palais forms the centrepiece of the Parc des Expositions in Brussels, Belgium - a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 27, 2009

  Don't Give Salvia the Reefer Madness Treatment

By Grant Smith: Move over marijuana. There's a new media sensation. You've probably heard about it by now. Once known only to a remote tribe of native Mexicans, salvia divinorum is a psychoactive plant that has made its way on to the Internet and into the minds of panicked lawmakers in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 1, 2009

  Global hunt for tax cheats rocks offshore centers

By Lisa Jucca: ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters): Offshore financial centers which have thrived under a veil of bank secrecy will have to embrace transparency to survive a global crackdown on tax cheats that is menacing the private banking sector in Switzerland and beyond. A US tax fraud...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 24, 2009

  America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy

By David Sirota, SFGate.com: History's great American parables teach that if anything unified our founders, it was a deep antipathy to dictatorship. As bourgeois revolutionaries from Boston to Philadelphia courageously split with the British crown in 1776, they created three equal branches...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2008

  The crisis of capitalism: toward the end of a materialist age

By İBRAHİM ÖZTÜRK: Today we are paying the cost of the last, but not the least, crisis caused by the "capitalist ideology." To remind you, a serious crisis came at the beginning of the 20th century that resulted in World War I. The second big crisis came with the Great Depression and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 21, 2008

  The meeting with Hu Jintao

Reflections by comrade Fidel: I did not want to talk a lot, but he obliged me to expand on things; I asked some questions and, basically, listened to him. His words recounted the feats of the Chinese people in the last 10 months. Heavy and unseasonal snowfall, an earthquake that...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 19, 2008

  THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Reflections of Fidel: Trade, within a society and among countries, is the exchange of goods and services produced by human beings. The owners of the means of production appropriate the profits. As a class, they are the leaders of the capitalist state and they boast of fostering development...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  From crisis to panic

By ASIM ERDİLEK: It is no longer just a global financial crisis waiting to be ended by government rescue plans of this sort and that sort, here and there. What we now have is a full-blown global financial panic, seemingly impervious to plans of any sort, which last week caused a brutal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 6, 2008

  Rescuing the rescue plan

By ASIM ERDİLEK: What a turbulent and dramatic week it was for the US and the global economies, with sudden political uncertainty about the fate of the bailout plan on top of the worsening financial crisis! The rescue plan had to be rescued itself with political scrambling and...... [view]

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