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Ex-soldier says he was asked to kill Haitian leader
May 13, 2005Anel Belizaire, an ex-soldier in Haiti who recently escaped from the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, says that someone from interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue’s office asked him last month to murder fellow inmate Yvon Neptune. Neptune...
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From Selma to Ohio
May 13, 2005The 1965 Selma, Ala., events were a milestone in the great struggle for liberation. With the overthrow of Reconstruction in 1877, it had been a long, bloody road of struggle against the system of Jim Crow...
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Ownership society but who really owns it?
May 13, 2005The New Deal of the 1930s can be seen as a response to the reality of socialism born in 1917, when the Russian Revolution thrust on the world’s action agenda the vision of a society based...
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Breaking the shackles: Cote d’Ivoire struggles against neocolonialism
May 13, 2005Jean-Baptiste Gomont Diagou wants to set the record straight about the conflict besetting Côte d’Ivoire, his home country. The Western media has portrayed the strife as religion-based, pitting the predominantly Muslim north against the south’s Christian...
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Price indexing and Social Security: A time bomb
May 13, 2005People Before Profits Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is...
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