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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 9, 2009
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Reflections of Fidel:
WHAT a strange surname! It appears Spanish, easy to pronounce, but it’s not. Never in my life have I heard or read about any student or compatriot with that name, among tens of thousands.
Where does it come from? I wondered. Over and over, the name came to mind of...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 2, 2009
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WASHINGTON, USA: REMITTANCES may be one of the few bright spots in the economic scheme of things in Barbados and other Caribbean countries as the region confronts a slowdown in tourism, a fall-off in foreign direct investment and a drop in commodity prices.
That assessment came from...... [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: Oct 31, 2008
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Reflections of Fidel:
IN Zulia, Chavez made reference to “comrade Sarkozy,” and did so with a certain irony but he meant no offense. On the contrary, he was rather recognizing the sincerity of the president when he spoke in Beijing in his capacity as chairman of the European Community....... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Oct 20, 2008
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By CHARLES R. LARSON:
If you’ve been attempting to make sense of the American presidential campaign, you are not alone. Weird, unbelievable, out of control -- these are terms that clearly apply to the nastiest election the country has ever encountered.
Let me assure you, however,...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Oct 13, 2008
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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]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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By Joseph E. Stiglitz:
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system – indeed, global finance – is in a mess. And now, with the US House of Representatives having rejected the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion bailout plan, it is also...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 29, 2008
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BY: ASIM ERDİLEK:
The US Treasury’s sweeping bailout plan hastily presented to the US Congress last Monday to end the global financial crisis has unleashed a furious debate, stalling congressional approval of the plan.
This welcome debate, after Congress commendably refused to...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jun 19, 2008
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REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL:
IT would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. During this...... [view]
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Posted By: cjneil
Posted On: May 17, 2007
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i was interviewed and put on ABC Lateline Business yesterday to defend Fairtrade.
see the transcript below.
if you go to the URL, the video is up too, but not sure for how long.
cameron
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Economists push for free trade to tackle poverty
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