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Chavez Wins Reform Vote In Venezeula
By Niko Price
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President Hugo Chavez won a referendum to eliminate term limits Sunday and vowed to remain in power for at least another decade to complete his socialist revolution

Global Slump Could Throw 53 Million More People Into Poverty
By Mike Head
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The World Bank warned last week that up to 53 million more people around the world could fall into poverty in 2009 as a result of the global economic slump, and up to 400,000 more children could die each year as a result of rising infant mortality. The statistics highlight the worldwide character of the social catastrophe being caused by the deepening crisis

When Population Growth And Resource Availability Collide
By Lester R. Brown
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With India’s population projected to grow from 1.2 billion in 2007 to 1.7 billion in 2050, a collision between rising human numbers and shrinking water supplies seems inevitable. The risk is that India could face social conflicts that would dwarf those in Rwanda. The relationship between population and natural systems is a national security issue, one that can spawn conflicts along geographic, tribal, ethnic, or religious lines

The River Too Tells The Story
By Dahr Jamail
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There is less water now in the Tigris, and it is less clean. The river has fewer fish, and rising fuel and other costs mean they are more costly to catch. It’s not, as Hamza Majit finds, a good time to be a fisher

Chomsky On Gaza
By Christiana Voniati
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An interview with Noam Chomsky

Israel Is Committing A Holocaust In Gaza: Norman Finkelstein
By Selcuk Gultasli
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An interview with Professor Norman Finkelstein who compiled the photomontage comparing the atrocities committed by Israel in Palestine and the Nazi holocaust

The Uniqueness Of Israeli Election
By Dr. Elias Akleh
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Elections all over the world very much look alike. The candidates talk about improving economic situations, creating jobs, cutting spending and reducing taxes, improving education, and increasing medical coverage and social services. But the Israeli elections have a unique characteristic that distinguishes it from all other elections. Israeli candidates talk about huge military spending, killing Palestinians, evicting them out of their homes, destroying their towns, stealing their land and building more illegal Israeli colonies

Captain Of The Universe
By Rand Clifford
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This show was an elaborate farce, apparent power versus real power. Real power is spoken in money. Real power always wins. In the end, banksters laughed all the way home with most of our money. Committee members, forces of apparent power, cowered in hopes of not actually offending real power

Toxic Plans For Toxic Assets
By Stephen Lendman
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With this kind of “dream team,” Obama may match or exceed “the most incompetent eight years of government in modern times, and (be) a contender” for all time, according to money manager and market strategist Jeremy Grantham. If so, the worst of today’s crisis lies ahead. Massive future plunder is coming to make working Americans no better off than millions of global wage slaves, that is if they have any decent employment at all

President Rajapkaha: STOP THE WAR!
By Chandi Sinnathurai
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Tamilnet is reporting from the ground that the Sri Lankan state is using cluster bombs and combustible bombs. Countless civilians are dead and many are suffering from respiratory problems. Make-shift hospitals are bombed. This dirty war has become increasingly insane while the world powers are simply being spectators. The Tamil civilians who are caught in this fighting are undergoing inhumane treatment

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