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Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas with helicopters
May 4, 2009Original source: Iranian helicopter gunships and artillery units pummeled suspected Kurdish guerilla positions in northern Iraq at the weekend. Tehran has regularly shelled Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK) bases in Iraq in recent years,...
Read moreCarter denounces Bolivian separatist movements
May 4, 2009Translated from Mexico City-based La Jornada by Emile Schepers LA PAZ -- Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, denounced on May 2 separatist movements in Bolivia. He anticipated...
Read moreFrom Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlan to Matewan from Mother Jones to you
May 4, 2009Source: So it has come to this, why must I wake the sleeping? It wasn’t so long ago I was asleep myself. Why must I be the one to tell you what you don’t want to...
Read moreLegalization is the X factor in immigrant rights
May 4, 2009Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)- Thousands of activists are holding May Day demonstrations nationwide to highlight the rights and needs of the nation's more than 30 million immigrants, who now account for 1-in-8 people living in the United...
Read moreEconomic downturn puts treatment of millions at risk
May 4, 2009JOHANNESBURG, 29 April 2009 (PlusNews) - After months of speculation about how the global economic downturn might affect HIV/AIDS programmes, a new World Bank report details the projected aftermath of the crisis and how it could...
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