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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 3, 2009

  "Restless Vagina Syndrome": Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease

By Terry J. Allen, In These Times: It’s not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner’s), that you don’t orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a 17-year-old boy. You have a disease: female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the pharmaceutical...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 21, 2009

  Are Pesticides Causing Parkinson's Disease?

By Robin Marantz Henig , OnEarth Magazine : This story originally appeared in OnEarth Magazine . Jackie Christensen was 32 when her body began to betray her. She had just returned to work after the birth of her second son and when she tried to type, two fingers on her...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 17, 2009

  Voices against infamy

Deisy Francis Mexidor "WE never placed our hopes on the U.S. judicial system," but this day will be "marked forever as one of the most shameful in U.S. jurisprudence,"...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 26, 2009

  Nothing can be improvised in Haiti

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) FIVE days ago I read a press report stating that Ban Ki-moon is to appoint Bill Clinton as his special envoy for Haiti. According to the report, Clinton accompanied the secretary general on a two-day official visit to Haiti...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 23, 2009

  The Cuban Five: A starkly controversial case

By Deanna Cox: COHA Research Associate - During Barack Obama’s first three months in office, his administration took several tentative steps toward rehabilitating the US relationship with Cuba. Up to now such ties have been dominated by unremitting hostility towards the Castro Regime of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 13, 2009

  Turks and Caicos Premier calls for referendum on direct rule from London

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Galmo Williams has called for a referendum to be taken or a general poll held before the United Kingdom government proceeds to suspend the territory’s constitution and impose direct rule from London later this month. ...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 18, 2009

  Raul Castro says Cuba would never return to the OAS

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- "The Organization of Americas States (OAS) has oozed blood since its very creation," said Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday reiterating the reasons why Cuba would never accept returning to this regional organization. During the Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 20, 2009

  Reducing CLICO staff seeks to conserve needed cash, says Guyana Commissioner of Insurance

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): In an invited comment Thursday in response to media reports that CLICO Guyana workers have been sent home and the Lamaha Street offices of the company has been closed, Commissioner of Insurance and Judicial Manager of CLICO Guyana, Maria van Beek, stressed that the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 19, 2009

  Chavez says Obama has 'stench' of Bush

CAMPO CARABOBO, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the "stench" of his predecessor as US president and was at risk of being killed if he tries to change the American "empire." Most world leaders expect a new era of US foreign relations when...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 27, 2008

  Will a Fierce Battle Over Gay Rights Split the Anglican Church?

By Marcela Valente, IPS News : BUENOS AIRES, Dec 22 -- On the brink of a split in the global Anglican Communion that no one is eager to enlarge on, the Province of the Southern Cone of South America has become a temporary refuge for conservative bishops from the United States who refuse to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 6, 2008

  Sailing against the tide

Reflections of Fidel: AFTER Obama’s speech to the Cuban-American National Foundation, created by Ronald Reagan, in the afternoon of May 23 this year, I wrote a reflection titled "The Cynical Politics of the Empire," dated the 25th of that month. In it, I quoted his words to the...... [view]

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