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Chavez lambasts big pharmaceutical firms
June 24, 2009Venezuela plans to scrap some pharmaceutical patents and allow domestic manufacturers to produce generic drugs. Commerce Minister Eduardo Saman declared at the weekend that Venezuela's socialist government would annul patents on some medicines under a reform...
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US drone slaughters Pakistanis
June 24, 2009Islamabad, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) Islamabad, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) A US unmanned Predator drone shot three missiles that hit a residence in Neej Narai mountains, in Ladha, South Waziristan, at the south Pakistani border with...
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COMMENTARY ‘No one asked us…’
June 23, 2009'Doomsday' budget cuts that hurt society's most vulnerable leads one Illinois worker to question if the 'system' is worth preserving. Today I came home from work with another headache, jaw sore from clenching my teeth, drained...
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Oregon workers fight unemployment, cutbacks
June 23, 2009The jobless rate in the western region of the U.S. surged to 10.1 percent in May and Oregon topped the list at 12.4 percent with California close behind at 11.5 percent and Nevada at 11.3 percent....
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50,000 people attend German Communist Party media fair
June 23, 2009DORTMUND, Germany -- The biannual press fair of Unzere Zeit [Our Time], the socialist weekly newspaper of the German Communist Party, was attended by 50,000 people over the weekend of June 19–21 in Revier Park near...
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