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WORLDNOTES: Argentina, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Gaza, Thailand, Puerto Rico
July 10, 2009Argentina: Elections mirror economic stresses In parliamentary elections June 28 the center-left Peronist bloc headed by President Cristina Fernandez and former president Nestor Kirchner lost congressional majorities. Voting in Buenos Aires Province, home to 40 percent...
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RI war vet, 93, honored with Spanish citizenship
July 10, 2009In 1937, John Hovan volunteered to travel to Spain and fight on the side of democracy against Gen. Franciso Franco's fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Now, at age 93, he's being honored with Spanish...
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Fantastic response to change
July 10, 2009We have gotten some great responses to the announcement last week that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online.
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Doctor walks 700 miles for health care reform
July 10, 2009In an effort to expose the failures of the current health care system, Dr. Ogan Gurel, 45, is trekking nearly 700 miles on foot from Chicago to Washington D.C. in order to bring to the attention...
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McNamara and wars lessons which way do we go now?
July 10, 2009On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it's fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.” That same...
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