Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Africa conference pushes corporate interests
August 7, 2014Although we read that Africa is making great strides, most of its countries, particularly those South of the Sahara, are still at the bottom of any measures of human wellbeing.
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U.S.
The child migrant crisis: latest developments
August 5, 2014The "crisis" appears to be shrinking: 85 percent of the 57,000 child migrants have now been placed with parents, other family members or sponsors living in the United States.
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World
Fighting intensifies in Eastern Ukraine as Kiev acts against Communist Party
August 4, 2014The crisis in Eastern Ukraine is coming to a head, with intensified fighting and mounting casualties, including many civilians.
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Judicial finding in Chile says U.S. complicit in death of young Americans
July 25, 2014A U.S. military officer practically delivered the two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, to the military dictatorship of Pinochet, who had both of them executed.
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World
July 26, 1953: Cuban revolutionary struggle turns 70
July 24, 2014A small band of courageous and principled young Cubans stormed the Moncada Barracks, the beginning of a movement that has changed the world forever.
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Ukraine itself burns in wake of airliner shoot-down
July 23, 2014People with their own agendas push their versions of who is to blame, there is a shooting war between military forces and local militias, and half a million refugees have crossed into Russia.
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U.S.
U.S. policy driving the children north
July 21, 2014The poverty and suffering of Guatemalans, and especially indigenous Guatemalans, is rooted in long term U.S. policy in the region.
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Stuttgart and Sarajevo: lessons from the “Great War”
July 2, 2014The lesson for us today is that we must spare no effort to build international working class unity against war, militarism, and imperialism.
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