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Cuba and UN together on human rights
December 21, 2007Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque took the occasion of World Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, to announce that early next year Cuba will sign the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a...
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Running out of gas: peak oil is here
December 21, 2007DVD REVIEW A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Directed by Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack and Reto Caduff Lava Productions, 2007 90 minutes Are believers in “peak oil” a lunatic fringe? Not according to the compelling and...
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Demolishing myths about todays Iran
December 21, 2007BOOK REVIEW Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran By Fatemeh Keshavarz University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2007 Hardcover, 192 pp., $24.95 As the Bush administration continues to prepare for a possible...
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Fear of Cuba
December 21, 2007During the Vietnam War era, President Richard Nixon worried about his country becoming a “pitiful, helpless giant.” Now, with the world’s only superpower over-reacting to fears, that possibility seems to have resurfaced. Two recent U.S. measures...
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Wheres the humanity in immigration enforcement?
December 21, 2007When human beings are called “illegal” and “alien” by elected officials and law enforcement agencies and in the media, what kind of message are we spreading?
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