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Written by Ceem Haidar
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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As I walked into the traditional living room of our Baalbek home in rural Lebanon, the television was on full blast. My family was gathered around and watching intently. I turned my gaze to find Eva Longoria acting in Desperate Housewives, the Emmy-award winning, prime time soap opera. |
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Written by Dr. Habib Siddiqui - OVI Magazine
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
In the last century very few world leaders could be compared with Winston Churchill of the Great Britain for his stand against appeasement. And yet he is famously quoted as saying, "To jaw-jaw is always better than war-war." So what is wrong in talking with Iran? After all, President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger did speak with their counterparts in China, Soviet Union and Vietnam at the height of tension with those countries. |
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Written by Siv O'Neall
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
Monsanto and the other major biotech companies – Syngenta, Bunge, Cargill, etc. – are all set on owning the world's food supply. Monsanto is by far the leader in this nightmare of destroying organic agriculture and millennia-old biodiversity. ... |
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Written by Binoy Kampmark - OVI Magazine
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is exuding confidence on the international stage. He has recently made a series of statements on a range of foreign policy initiatives, suggesting much promise. His report card is, however, a mixed one. Much potential, with little in the way of clarity.... |
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Written by Rene Wadlow
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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June 12, is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the June arrival in 1998 of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against Child Labour that had crossed a 100 countries to present their plight to the International Labour Organization (ILO). |
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Written by Siv O'Neall
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
It's way too late at this moment to ask the question: Are we going to lose our democracy? We may not all have noticed it yet, but the Big Corporations stole our democracy a long time ago. ... |
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Written by Rene Wadlow
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, stocking cluster bombs was agreed to by 111 countries in Dublin, Ireland, on 30 May.... in this case the shadow is the fact that the major makers and users of cluster munitions were deliberately not there: USA, Russia, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan. ... |
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Written by Armen Kouyoumdjian
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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To the joy of many and the irritation of some (or is it the other way round?), our friend Armen Kouyoumdjian is back after a trip to Armenia and the Cannes film festival. The Chile he finds on his return is an even bigger mess than the one he left. ... |
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Written by Rodrigue Tremblay
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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First, let me make a general observation. The American political process, especially at the presidential level, is inhuman and inefficient. It is a gruesome meat grinder where candidates have to campaign for months in primaries or caucuses in all 50 states, raise tens of millions dollars and see their private lives exposed and criticized. ... |
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Written by Savo Heleta
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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Poor townships and informal settlements around the South African city of Johannesburg exploded in xenophobic violence three weeks ago, with South African black people lynching, raping, burning, and killing legal and illegal immigrants from other African countries. |
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Belfort, Paris, Roskilde... la Salamandre a pris la route |
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Interview Civis Memoria: Le jour où Franck Biancheri a convaincu Mitterrand de relancer le programme Erasmus |
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