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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 30, 2009
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(Taken from Cubadebate
THESE days many cables are talking about China’s economic potential. Yesterday, March 28, it was the turn of the principal U.S. news agency to acknowledge that "China is the only economy growing at a fast clip…
"In his second rebuke of U.S. leadership this...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 24, 2009
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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]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 7, 2009
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By A. KADİR YILDIRIM*
What is a bigger threat to democratization in the Middle East, reigning secular-elite parties and regimes or popular Islamic parties?
Discourse against Islamic parties in the region appears to be the norm, usually in favor of authoritarian but secular regimes....... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Dec 6, 2008
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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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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Nov 22, 2008
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By Herve Kempf , Chelsea Green Publishing
There is an emergency. In less than a decade we will have to change course, but there are a few major obstacles blocking the way.
The following is reprinted from the new book How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Herve Kempf and...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Nov 9, 2008
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By HALUK ÖZDALGA*
The Bush administration is approaching its final days in dire disappointment in all areas. In international relations, it is a huge failure felt most severely in the greater Middle East, an area of direct concern for Turkey. The single most important reason for this...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: May 4, 2008
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Bahamas Ranks 37th In World Press Freedom - Report Says Press Freedom Declines:
Bahama Journal -
A non governmental organization based in the United States has ranked The Bahamas 37th in a worldwide assessment of press freedom, referring to instances where undue pressure might have been...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Apr 23, 2008
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OPINION-Crime and punishment -
The Nassau, Guardian:
There are around one thousand people in prison in The Bahamas. Is that a lot or little? How can we tell?
Compared to the 2.2 million people languishing in U.S. jails it does not sound all that many, but the population of The Bahamas...... [view]
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