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Is Chavez Building People’s Power in Venezuela? |
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Written by Federico Fuentes
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Monday, 22 March 2010 14:06 |
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“The Venezuelan government has launched a number of initiatives in recent
weeks aimed to tackle threats to the revolutionary process — including from
elements within the pro-Chavez camp that seek to undermine plans to deepen the
revolution.”
“Central to this are new measures aimed at speeding up the transfer of power
to organized communities.”
Chavez wrote in his February 21 column: “The time has come for communities to
assume the powers of state, which will lead administratively to the total
transformation of the Venezuelan state and socially to the real exercise of
sovereignty by society through communal powers.”
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Pentagon says it will bomb in Somalia to wipe out resistance |
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Written by Abayomi Azikiwe
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:00 |
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US, as per a statement, said it would strike an aerial assault in Somalia in
response to the dispute between the ruling power, the US-backed Transitional
Federal Government, and the two Islamic resistance movements, the Al Shabaab
and the Hizbul Islam.
Hizbul Islam said, “we cannot accept our enemy controlling this region and we
are not afraid of the American government. We will defeat any attack from the
Somali government.” The US government countered that “what you are likely to
see is air strikes and Special Ops moving in, hitting and getting out.”
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Economic Crisis in 2010 and Beyond: Job losses will continue to rise |
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Written by Jack Rasmus
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Monday, 11 January 2010 11:14 |
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At the end of 2009, investors, business press pundits, and government policymakers alike reluctantly began to question whether the economic recovery in GDP terms would continue into 2010. Growing almost daily was talk of declining housing prices, rising home foreclosures and mortgage delinquencies, falling tax revenues, growing deficits for state and local governments, and chronic jobs losses occurring at a 200,000 to 400,000 monthly rate—depending on which of the government's two surveys is chosen. Even government policymakers at the highest levels, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, for example, admit that job losses may continue for months, possibly several years, and that it will take another five years minimum—until 2016—to get back to a level of jobs that existed in 2007.
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An American World of War: What to watch for in 2010 |
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Written by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
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Monday, 11 January 2010 11:04 |
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According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin.
We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September 11, 2001 was that “war” came to “the homeland,” a mighty blow delivered against the very symbols of our economic, military, and -- had Flight 93 not gone down in a field in Pennsylvania -- political power.
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End monopoly capitalism to arrest climate change |
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Written by Prof. Jose Maria Sison
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Monday, 14 December 2009 20:53 |
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Human societies have created the bases of our survival, sustenance and advancement through the use of our natural resources in production with rudimentary tools and rising levels of science and technology. Yet in no time in history has environmental destruction been systematically brought about in most parts of the world.
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URGENT APPEAL OF THE DISPLACED WORKERS OF TRIUMPH INTERNATIONAL PHILIPPINES
What people can and must do about the economic and financial crisis
