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World Bank in about face on worker rights
May 3, 2009WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - The World Bank is dropping an index scored for undermining worker rights from its flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth in emerging, developing, and former Soviet countries. The move, announced...
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KROMM REPORT: Will the Supreme Court kill the Voting Rights Act?
May 3, 2009Original source: The case is Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District #1 v. Holder -- shortened to NAMUDNO -- and represents the most serious challenge to the act to date, and has become a lightning rod for...
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Cuba: The unalienable decision to build socialism
May 2, 2009Text of the speech given by Salvador Valdés Mesa, CTC general secretary at the central event for May Day in the Plaza de la Revolución Comrades from the Party, state, and government leadership, Distinguished guests, Workers;...
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WHO: Pigs don’t cause ‘swine flu’
May 2, 2009The World Health Organisation said on Thursday it will stop using the term 'swine flu' after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs.
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Eleven talking points on 21st century socialism
May 2, 2009The current discussion around socialism in left and progressive circles in the U.S. needs to be placed in a more substantive arena. This is an effort to do so. I take note in advance of the...
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