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Vol. 68/No. 5 February 9, 2004
Radical reorganization and
cutback of Cuba’s sugar industry
Restructuring of island’s largest agro-industry
lays basis for diversification of food production
(feature article)
BY...
At 7:20PM local time in the Court of Justice of the State of Pará in Belém, Judge
Robert Moura announced the sentence that condemned the official, Major Jose
Maria Oliveira, to 158 years and four months of reclusion. Despite the conviction of
04 votes to 03, the officer who...
In a move that has surprised many foreign policy analysts here, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed a prominent neo-conservative hawk and leading champion of the Iraq war to the post of State Department Counselor.
Eliot A. Cohen, who teaches...
From Global Exchange, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Global Justice Ecology Project
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Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge said she had been fired for going on an unauthorised trip to a Spanish Aids conference and for criticising hospital conditions.
She said it was her duty to respond quickly to reports that babies were dying in a maternity hospital.
...
Greg Palast (Best Democracy Money Can Buy) and Antonia Juhasz (The Tyranny of Oil) talk about the causes and catastrophes of the Deepwater Horizon BP rig collapse off the shore of Louisiana. With host Kris Welch...
In September 2003, the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Cancún, Mexico came to a screeching halt after a large bloc of the world’s developing countries refused to expand the WTO unless the wealthier nations made existing trade rules fairer. Also known as the “...
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"Research conducted in many...
DAR ES SALAAM, 22 March 2007 (IRIN) - The number of tuberculosis cases in Tanzania has risen from 39,000 a decade ago to 64,200 in 2005, a trend blamed on high HIV/AIDS prevalence, the Health Minister, David Mwakyusa, said on Thursday.
"Research conducted in many...
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