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  • Red Cross urges action to relieve crisis in Gaza, West Bank

    Red Cross urges action to relieve crisis in Gaza, West Bank

    December 19, 2007

    GENEVA — The Palestinian population living in the occupied territories is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis as a result of the drastic deterioration of the situation there, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said...

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  • Midwest city rejects war mongering on Iran

    Midwest city rejects war mongering on Iran

    December 18, 2007

    When the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was released noting that Iran gave up its nuclear weapons program in 2003, the council moved into action. Unanimously, it passed a resolution ensuring that no pre-emptive military...

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  • The transformative power of Venezuelas co-ops

    The transformative power of Venezuelas co-ops

    December 14, 2007

    Commentary For over a decade, an abandoned refilling station owned by Venezuelan oil company PDVSA in western Caracas was a place of death. Community residents said it was a place where women were raped, murdered bodies...

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  • Demolishing myths about todays Iran

    Demolishing myths about todays Iran

    December 14, 2007

    Book 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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  • Finding the Peoples Weekly World in 2008

    Finding the Peoples Weekly World in 2008

    December 14, 2007 By Teresa Albano

    This is a heads-up for you. Don’t start 2008 without subscribing to the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo. Don’t be caught saying to yourself in January, “Boy, I miss that newspaper I used to read every week...

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