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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 8, 2009

  Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews

By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet: The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews. The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 24, 2009

  The illicit drug trade

...with Nazma Muller Daurius Figueira is a social researcher who has spent the last 20 years investigating the illicit drug trade. His areas of interest are broad yet interlocking; politics, government, the illicit drug trade, the illicit gun trade, human trafficking in the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 28, 2009

  Link between global dimming and warming baffles scientists

MOSCOW. (Andrei Kislyakov, for RIA Novosti) - The latest research by European scientists, climatologists and astronomers suggests that the so-called global dimming, or the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface, observed for several decades after the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2009

  Cuba: honey of power and flowers of pragmatism

MOSCOW. (Oleg Vyazmitinov, RIA Novosti correspondent in Cuba) - Last Monday brought crucial news to Cuba: a number of key ministers were sacked, and a merger of four ministries announced. News reports and analyses published in leading Western newspapers claim the turnaround in Cuba's home...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 26, 2008

  Sodomy Laws Are Rooted in British Colonialism

By Nergui Manalsuren, IPS News: Although 66 countries signed a statement at the United Nations on Dec. 19 affirming that human rights protections extend to sexual orientation and gender identity, activists note that dozens of nations still criminalize homosexuality and seven impose the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 18, 2008

  Barack Obama's historic victory (2)

By RICHARD FALK* Barack Obama's presidential victory, above all, signaled to the world an American willingness to repudiate Bush militarist and unilateralist approaches to global policy. Time will tell, but what now prevails is an unprecedented mood of high and happy expectations.The...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008

  Western leaders blast Russia for recognizing Abkhazia, S.Ossetia

MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign leaders spoke out Tuesday against Russia's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, while people in the Georgian breakaway regions greeted the news with raucous celebrations. Britain, the United States, Germany, France and Italy expressed...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 23, 2008

  Bahamian Education Minister: ‘Bahamianize’ the curriculum in primary and high schools throughout the Bahamas

‘Bahamianization’ Of Education: By Sasha L. Lightbourne - Nassau, Bahamas: Education is not only an academic phenomenon but also a cultural one, according to the minister of education. Carl Bethel recently expressed the need to ‘Bahamianize’ the curriculum in primary and...... [view]

Posted By:  grrrlriot
Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008

  The Nineties: Riot Grrrl

This article was taken from Associated Content . The Riot Grrrl community first surfaced in Washington D.C. in 1991. Its cause was to maintain a female positive environment in the punk scene when misogyny ran rampant. Kathleen Hanna, the poster child for riot grrrl and front woman of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 17, 2008

  Background to conflict: independent streak of breakaway republics

Both South Ossetia and Abkhazia fought wars of independence with Georgia in the early 90s - and won de facto sovereignty. But the roots of the conflict between Georgia and its breakaway regions can be traced back much further. Both breakaway republics are striving for a future that is...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 7, 2008

  The true story and the challenge of the Cuban journalists

Reflections of Fidel: SEVEN days ago I wrote about one of the great men in history: Salvador Allende, a man the world remembered with deep emotion and respect on his first centennial. However, no one quivered or even recalled the date of October 24, 1891, when the Dominican despot Rafael...... [view]

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