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Cuando los 'peregrinos' comieron carne humana en Acción de Gracias
Thanksgiving means many things to many people. To the average American, it is a time of giving thanks for what we have. A time of watching football, getting ready to spend obscene amounts of money on Black Friday “sales”: camping out for a new television set that we didn’t need. To Native Americans it is…
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Los Ángeles se unirá a Nueva York y otras 50 ciudades estadounidenses que prohíben alimentar a las personas sin hogar.
By Clare Kim As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County continues to rise, the City Council is weighing a ban on feeding homeless people in public areas. City Council members Tom LaBonge and Mitch O’Farrell, both Democrats, introduced the resolution after complaints from Los Angeles residents. Arguing that meal lines should be moved indoors, the…
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Las mujeres asumen un papel de combate en el norte kurdo de Siria.
Jamie Dettmer QAMISHLI, SYRIA — In Syria’s northeast, women are taking on unusually prominent roles in Kurdish security forces. On the outskirts of the Kurdish town of Derik, close to the Iraqi border, a billboard displays the photographs of more than 300 Kurdish warriors who have died in the past few months in northeast Syria battling…
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Por qué las malas decisiones de los pobres tienen todo el sentido del mundo
By Linda Tirado What we know about poverty is often academic. It’s rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that. There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look…
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¿Está Estados Unidos aprovechando los estragos del tifón para obtener bases militares en Filipinas?
by John Glaser Last week I wrote about the potential for the Obama administration’s Asia-Pivot strategy to inflame anti-colonialist sentiment. I lamented that Washington tries simply to get around this popular opposition to the military surge in East Asia instead of acknowledging that people don’t like to be occupied by foreign militaries. Cynically, the U.S. has exploited the…
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Tan solo 90 empresas fueron responsables de dos tercios de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero provocadas por el hombre.
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the…
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Hombres armados queman registros de desaparecidos de la guerra de El Salvador
By MARCOS ALEMAN SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Armed men broke into a nonprofit agency that works to locate children missing from El Salvador’s civil war and set fire to the group’s archives, national fire officials said Thursday. The intruders also stole computers during the early morning attack that damaged four offices of the Probusqueda…
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Israel acepta devolver los órganos robados de palestinos fallecidos.
Palestinians carry the body of Jihad Aslan during his funeral at Qalandiya Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah Aug. 26, 2013. (Reuters) Israel has agreed to return organs of dead Palestinians harvested by its forensic pathologists during autopsies, Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh told Ma’an news agency on Wednesday. Head of…
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Los enfrentamientos entre residentes y milicias dejan decenas de muertos y cientos de heridos en la capital libia.
Libya’s prime minister has demanded that all armed militias leave Tripoli “without exception,” after clashes between militiamen and armed residents left dozens dead and almost 400 wounded. At least 43 people were reportedly killed in Friday’s street fighting, one of the worst in the Libyan capital since the overthrow of former leader, Muammar Gaddafi. The…
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En el 34º aniversario de la fundación del Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria)
On November 8, 1979 a group of comrades tempered and steeled in the battle against fascism, reaction and revisionism came together and formed what would become the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) – PC (AP). In the three decades that have elapsed since then, the world has turned many times. Some former friends and allies…
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