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  • Chavez: Under socialism ownership is legal

    Chavez: Under socialism ownership is legal

    June 2, 2009

    CARACAS, June 1 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced a smear campaign aimed at distorting the course of social justice in the process of changes he has led since 1999. The president warned in his...

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  • Marchers respond to ‘fascist’ policy

    Marchers respond to ‘fascist’ policy

    June 2, 2009

    Original source: Left-wing activists have marched through Rome in solidarity with migrants, as ministers from the G8 countries concluded a meeting on migration, security and terrorism. Thousands of demonstrators, including many immigrants, waved banners denouncing the...

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  • Goodbye GM — a letter from Michael Moore

    Goodbye GM — a letter from Michael Moore

    June 2, 2009

    I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been...

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  • WORLD NOTES Argentina, Egypt, China, Georgia, Afghanistan, Cuba

    WORLD NOTES Argentina, Egypt, China, Georgia, Afghanistan, Cuba

    June 2, 2009

    Argentina: Worker-run plants continue As the country slipped into financial crisis in 2001, owners of the Zanon Ceramics factory in Neuquén Province fired all employees, holding back on pay and pensions. Workers there and in 200...

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  • Cuban Adjustment Act remains off the table

    Cuban Adjustment Act remains off the table

    June 2, 2009

    The Obama administration recently proposed resuming semi-annual talks on Cuban migration to the United States. The State Department referred to “commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration” and to President Obama’s desire “to support the Cuban...

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