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Informe sobre la protesta contra el proyecto de ley HB 87 y el proyecto de ley SB1070 de Georgia.
On a glorious day in July, thousands upon thousands of immigrants and their supporters took a stand against the new racist bill passed in Georgia. Starting around ten in the morning, the march continued until the afternoon, a fitting testament to the willpower and endurance of the American working class. HB 87, the aggressive new…
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El albergue de Skid Row cobra tarifas a medida que la economía se endurece.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Skid Row resident Dadisi Komolafe points indignantly to the sign reading “Union Rescue Mission,” and grumbles that the name no longer fits since the shelter started charging for a nightly stay. “They should change it to ‘Union Hotel’,” said the nearly toothless jazz musician, who sleeps on the street. “If you…
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Se reportan daños en un segundo barco de la flotilla de la Franja de Gaza; los organizadores acusan a Israel.
JERUSALEM — Organizers of a flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip said Thursday that another of their boats had been damaged in port, and they accused Israel of sabotage. It was the second boat reported damaged in recent days, setting back plans by the pro-Palestinian activists to sail this week.…
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Los judíos soviéticos, el sionismo e Israel
“Zionism” is a political movement that calls for the establishment of a Jewish state, manifested mostly in support for the current state of Israel, established in 1948. Zionism, in claiming to establish a Jewish state in the lands of Palestine, in practice is advocating the expulsion of the Arab peoples from Palestine, where the Jews…
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¿Quién está matando a los periodistas de Honduras?
Editor’s Note: June 28, 2011 is the two-year anniversary of the coup in Honduras. The small town of San Marco, near Honduras’ western border with El Salvador and Guatemala, has no distinguishing factors that set it apart from the other tiny villages and hamlets that dot the rural region of Ocotepeque. Its dusty streets and…
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El golpe de Estado en Honduras: ¿Es Obama inocente?
By Michael Parenti Is President Obama innocent of the events occurring in Honduras, specifically the coup launched by the Honduran military resulting in the abduction and forced deportation of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya? Obama has denounced the coup and demanded that the rules of democracy be honored. Still, several troubling questions remain. First, almost…
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El caso de Oscar Grant
On the early morning of New Year’s Day 2009, Oscar Grant, after being detained along with a group of his friends by police officers of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Unit, was fatally shot in the back by officer Johannes Mehserle when he was handcuffed and laying face-down on a train platform. When facing charges…
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Las guerras interminables de Washington
US military forces are now waging simultaneous drone missile attacks, bombings, special forces assassination raids and ground combat in five separate countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. President Barack Obama, who owed his 2008 election victory in large measure to the popular revulsion felt by millions of Americans toward the wars of aggression launched…
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El verdadero Reagan
The centennial of Ronald Reagan has just gone by. The former President is highly praised in the media, but in reality there is much evidence that Ronald Wilson Reagan did far more to harm the people of this country and this world than to better their conditions. Both at home and abroad, his legacy is…
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Neal Boortz pide el asesinato en masa de personas negras.
From the June 14 edition of Cox Radio Syndication’s Neal Boortz Show: BOORTZ: You know what? I, for one, am tired of putting up with this crap. And you want to know why I moved out of Atlanta and only spend a couple of weeks a year in this town? That’s one of the reasons.…
El Fénix Rojo
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