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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Oct 3, 2008
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"... I don't think we've invested well... in the last few years..." - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (daughter of late mayor of Baltimore, Maryland; multimillionaire; Democratic congresswoman, 8th Congressional district, California - San Francisco) on the current state of U.S....... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Sep 30, 2008
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We're reading Sean O'Grady's article in today's Independent: "... no amount of taxpayer money, no vote in Congress or the Commons and no speech by a president or prime minister can now fully restore the confidence that has been drained...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Sep 25, 2008
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Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Sep 21, 2008
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Thanks to my sister for sharing news of veteran U.S. legal aid attorney William Brennan and his testimony in Congress on 24 May 2000. So Congress had first-hand knowledge of what was going on from an attorney helping elderly, often...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Aug 7, 2008
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I will never forget that August 7, 1998 was a Friday. In Croatia I finished a report for work. My colleague-friend Melinda and I had taken a day of leave and arrived on Croatia's beautiful, rocky, pine-scented Dalmatian coast to...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Apr 24, 2008
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In London in September or October 2004 this writer spoke on the panel, "Alliances We Need to Fight Racism" at the 2004 European Social Forum. I participated as a member of the network Alliance of People of African Descent in...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Mar 21, 2008
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It's just days after the "Ides of March" - the date when the emperor Giulio Cesare was assassinated in Rome. In English we call him Julius Caesar. In English we also have a saying about March, that it "comes in...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Feb 23, 2008
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From Cuba this week, at age 81, Fidel Castro announced his retirement. As a child in the late 50s, early 60s, I remember the feeling if not every political detail, of the way Cuba's "surprise" revolution shifted forever the power...... [view]
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Posteado por: MarianD
Publicado el: Feb 25, 2008
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After five years living in the Balkans, and longer if I count Italy and France, there are a few things I know about Europe and Kosovo, and even more I remember about that area and the rest of former Yugoslavia....... [view]
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