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Cubas health care: A continuing success story
August 16, 2008Health care Cuban style has many admirers. One reason is favorable statistical measures of health outcome vying with those of wealthy nations. Preventative strategies, health education, and universal access through a unique primary care system all...
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Picket line fun in the sun
August 16, 2008Jugglers, a stilt-walker, kids’ games and bright summer gear livened the scene Aug. 14 as dozens of labor activists picketed the Woodfin Suites Hotel in Emeryville, Calif. The carnival-themed demonstration organized by the East Bay Alliance...
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John Rujevcic Gerlach, 1915-2008
August 16, 2008At the ripe age of 93, John R. Gerlach, the former Intelligence Officer of the Legendary 15th Brigade that included the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, passed away on August 12th, in Camarillo, California—having lived a very long...
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War or peace? U.S. faces a choice in the Georgia-Russia conflict and beyond
August 16, 2008Commentary Georgia, in a geo-political sense, is an outpost of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that sits directly on the border of Russia on one side and close to the Middle...
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The lefts lasting legacy
August 16, 2008BOOKREVIEW Against Capitalism: the European Left on the March By William A. Pelz Peter Lang Publishing, 2007, 159 pp. Historian William Pelz, author of several previous books on the early German left, has written a stimulating...
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