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Michael Parenti: Medicina de libre mercado: una cuenta personal
by Michael Parenti When I recently went to Alta Bates hospital for surgery, I discovered that legal procedures take precedence over medical ones. I had to sign intimidating statements about financial counseling, indemnity, patient responsibilities, consent to treatment, use of electronic technologies, and the like. One of these documents committed me to the following: “The…
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La mano de Reagan en el genocidio de Guatemala
By Robert Parry Guatemala is taking steps to hold an ex-dictator accountable for genocide committed against Maya-Ixil Indians in the 1980s, even as the United States continues to honor the American president — Ronald Reagan — who helped make that genocide possible. A Guatemalan judge ordered Efraín Ríos Montt to appear in court on Thursday…
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El ascenso de Rand Paul y la normalización de la derecha racista.
Just what is this Rand Paul phenomenon anyways? Shortly after taking on the Republican political establishment– and winning– in the Kentucky Senate primary, Paul has Republicans, Libertarians, and Democrats all wondering if he’s the real deal or not. For starters, his comments that the Civil Rights Act should be abolished and private businesses should have…
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Anonymous hackea a neonazis y encuentra a Ron Paul.
by Jessica Pieklo Well this just got interesting. The hacktivist collective Anonymous set out to take down the white supremacist American Third Party (A3P) in what they called “Operation Blitzkrieg” but they may have done much more. In a document dump that includes private forum messages, emails, organization notes another other information the group found…
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Ku Klux Klan: una historia violenta
By Tom Leonard The organisation – founded by ex-Confederate soldiers following the American Civil War – has long been far more ruthless and violent than any white supremacist group in the UK. Started in 1865 as a secret society (taking its name by combing kyklos, the Greek word for circle, with clan) that attacked Unionists…
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47 muertos en enfrentamientos entre exmercenarios libios y el ejército de Malí
Tuareg Spokesman Rejects Claim of Major Military Victory by Jason Ditz, January 19, 2012 The Malian military is reporting that at least 47 people were killed [on Jan. 19th], including 45 rebels, as fighting between troops and ethnic Tuareg fighters in the far north continued. They claimed a major victory in the fight, with many…
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Las personas sin hogar se ven gravemente afectadas mientras que el número de muertos por la intensa ola de frío en Europa del Este asciende a 58.
By Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine — Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap, and some analysts blame a Soviet-era legacy of viewing the homeless as those who need to be punished instead of helped. Temperatures have plunged to minus 27 C (minus 17 F) in some areas. At least 58…
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Mitos sobre el socialismo: Refutación de los argumentos más comunes
If you’ve expressed interest in socialism at some point in your life, you’ve probably had an encounter ( it can be at a family dinner, at school, the break room at work or any number of other examples) that goes like this: You say something favorable about socialism, anything at all, and someone in the…
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Obreros de una fábrica en India se rebelan y asesinan al presidente de la compañía.
Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with lead pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly. The workers were enraged enough to kill Regency’s president K. C. Chandrashekhar after their union leader, M. Murali Mohan, was killed by baton-wielding riot police on Thursday. The…
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Secretos del multimillonario que respalda la candidatura de Gingrich a la Casa Blanca.
Sheldon Adelson is not running for office – but his cash could swing Tuesday’s Florida primary Paul Harris Abraham Foxman, the amiably chatty director of the Jewish civil rights group, the Anti-Defamation League, has a story to tell about his friend, the 78-year-old multi-billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Adelson, who is America’s eighth richest man…
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