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Boycott Bulgaria, Boycott Sofia |
by Emil Kuzmanov
animalprograms (nospam) abv.bg (verified) |
06 Dec 2006
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In a few weeks time Bulgaria will become a full EU member and will have to comply with the European Commission's Regulation No.998/2003. The missing legal pet control is replaced by criminal collection and abuse of the great number of healthy animals. |
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News :: Human Rights : Labor : Politics : Race |
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Alert: Lorenzo Ervin unjustly fired by Nashville Peace and Justice Center |
by Liberty ABC
libertyabc (nospam) riseup.net (verified) |
05 Dec 2006
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On Monday, December 4, 2006, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin was unjustly fired
from his position as coordinator of the Nashville Peace and Justice
Center (NPJC). |
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Tehran's Holocaust Denial Conference |
by P. David Hornik
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05 Dec 2006
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Iran, which has often proclaimed its intent to carry out a second Holocaust, this time against the Jews concentrated in Israel, will be holding a Holocaust-denial conference on December 11-12. |
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News :: Human Rights |
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Pioneering Study Shows Richest 2% Own 1/2 of World Wealth |
by The World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations
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05 Dec 2006
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Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent
Own Half World Wealth
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth
according to a path-breaking study released today by the Helsinki-based World Institute for
Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER). |
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The Marla Ruzicka Story -- The *Real* Story |
by Christian Parenti (posted by JA)
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04 Dec 2006
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No one who was a threat -- let alone any real threat -- to the U.S. imperialist war machine would ever be gushingly and pervasively celebrated by it, the President, the Congress, imperialist politicians, and the military, no less, as well as the political establishment's corporate media. Marla Ruzicka -- even posing for pictures on top of tanks and in group hugs with gun-posing American soldiers, let alone using the war and exploiting the misery of the Iraqi people to parlay that into a hoped-for lucrative cushy position inside the Pentagon or State Department, feathering her nest and her new career with military-industrial complex money (yet still a pittance of that spent on the bombs of war) -- served as a willing PR front for that machine. Furthermore, she was willing to collect and *give* that information directly to the US *military*, providing it with, in effect, valuable intelligence on the Iraqi people (how many males and females of which ages, including possible fighting age, in each family, and what their resources and professional/community positions were, perhaps a community critic of the US war, maybe an intellectual, a journalist, a teacher, or a doctor/nurse who could patch up Iraqi wounded resistace fighters, and who in each family might have gotten shot -- perhaps a resistance member? -- by the US military) under the guise of humanitarian relief. Here is what progressive journalist Christian Parenti had to say about the darling of the U.S. imperialist military war machine: |
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