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Should Chicago host the 2016 Summer Games?
April 7, 2009CHICAGO – For the last several days, 13 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been touring this city and getting to know its landscape. Chicago is being evaluated as the potential host city for...
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World protests grow against capitalist crisis and war
April 7, 2009Beginning on Saturday 28 March in London and Berlin, and culminating in mass protests around the world on 4 April millions of working people and peace activists mobilized to express their rage at the deepening capitalist...
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U.S. economic policy faces a defiant planet
April 7, 2009Original source: As President Obama begins his first European tour this week, starting with the G20 economic summit, he’s finding that much of the rest of the world has suddenly become quite uppity. If all goes...
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Antarctic ice bridge shatters, ice shelf the size of Connecticut could be next
April 7, 2009Dramatic message to polar summit Mother Nature sent a dramatic message to a global summit on the Arctic and Antarctic that opened this morning in Baltimore: On Saturday, an ice bridge that is believed to hold...
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Obama calls for partnership with the Islamic world
April 7, 2009In yet another sharp break with the way things were done during the Bush years, President Obama, speaking to the Turkish Parliament Apr. 6, declared, “The United States is not at war with Islam” and called...
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