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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
July 6, 2007
 
The trouble with Veterans Affairs ( http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/5451 )
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis-St. Paul,Minnesota,USA
The reality is that we live in an Imperial nation and the majority of our citizenry enjoy the benefits of that imperialism. We are very dishonest about this ...
 
Iran: Riots over petrol rationing ( http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/494/np1502.htm )
Socialist Party - UK
Alongside repression, the regime is exploiting the conflict with US imperialism to dampen opposition and dissent. Supreme leader Ayatollah Khameini has ...
 
Unite against war, poverty and terrorism ( http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/494/pp1496.htm )
Socialist Party - UK
As socialists we acknowledge that the mass mobilisation of the working class is necessary for fundamental change and to bring about a socialist society. ...
 
Privatization of Iraq - worse than you think. ( http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/7/5/102815/2157 )
ePluribus Media - USA
But then as I read through the article, I noticed a few other items that jump out as even bigger - things that deal with the overall privatization of Iraq ...
 
Protests against water privatization repressed in El Salvador ( http://www.ww4report.com/node/4180 )
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The Salvadoran social movement has increased its opposition to water privatization, bringing together many groups organizing at the national level to raise ...
 
Privatization is another Bush mess ( http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20070705/NEWS/707050305/1017/OPINION02/NEWS/Privatization_is_another_Bush_mess )
BlueRidgeNow.com - Hendersonville,NC,USA
But there's a far worse catastrophe being committed in the privatization of highways, bridges, airports, the Postal Service, even National Parks -- areas ...
 
Ghana: Global Influence of Nkrumah And the Pan African Movement ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200707051307.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
However, the shared experiences of oppression by Europe and America were what would unite Africans all over the world. The first Pan African Convention took ...
 
Libby, Bush & Iraq ( http://www.workers.org/2007/editorials/libby-0712 )
Workers World - USA
They suffered from racist and class oppression. To Bush and his cohorts, they were lesser beings. The imperialist ruling class here considers it better to ...
 
Ghana: Educating On Human Rights - NCCE & CHRAJ ( http://allafrica.com/stories/200707051305.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
They include but not limited to National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). ...
 
Kurdish Activists Confirm Damning Human Rights Report ( http://www.iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=336826&apc_state=henh )
Institute for War and Peace Reporting - London,England,UK
226, 05-July-07) Human rights advocates in northern Iraq say the findings of a new report accusing Kurdish security forces of systematic mistreatment of ...
 
The new crusaders: environmental education producing cadre of ... ( http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_8052.shtml )
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
He became an Environmental Justice Scholar at Xavier's Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) during the 1995-96 school year. ...
 
Freedom, Democracy, and Free Enterprise? ( http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4358 )
Foreign Policy In Focus - USA
Earlier this year, even President Bush admitted for the first time that "income inequality is real -- it's been rising for more than 25 years. ...
 
"A new gilded age of inequality" ( http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/494/np1511.htm )
Socialist Party - UK
... it is the same as it was in the 1920s, and the 1920s looked the same as pre-World War One - so we are in a new gilded age of inequality."
 
Failing to fight poverty in Africa ( http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/comment/0,,2119895,00.html )
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The failure of the millennium development goals for eradicating African poverty to be met by 2015 is tragic (Report, July 2). ...
 
Leading Scientist Says Climate Change Increases Poverty and Hunger ( http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-05-voa42.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
By Lisa Schlein A leading climate change scientist says the warming of the planet would have a devastating impact on the poor and the hungry. ...
 
Islamic groups seek inquiry ( http://www.thestar.com/News/article/232829 )
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
There should be a public inquiry into harassment and discrimination against Muslims and other racial minorities in Toronto schools and across the province, ...
 
Racism lives on for slave descendants ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070705.BRAZIL05/TPStory/TPInternational/America/ )
Globe and Mail - Canada
But, as the squeeze on Mr. Mello and his wife shows, Mr. da Silva's efforts face deeply entrenched racism, red tape and big-business interests. ...
 
'Silent Racism' ( http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_186112038.html )
San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos,TX,USA
The 66 year-old recently celebrated Paradigm Publishers' March 30 paperback release of her book entitled, Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People ...
 
A military strategy for combatting institutional racism ( http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_8055.shtml )
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
To many Black citizens, racism is a given in American society. However, when non-Blacks come to this country, ostensibly to escape oppression, and engage in ...
 
Poverty ain't fun: Jobless rate low, but the number of poor too high ( http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6299318 )
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
As Utah basks in its lowest unemployment rate ever, 2.9 percent at last count, the number who live in poverty climbed to 10.2 percent from 9.4 percent five ...
 
New Act to protect children ( http://www.southafrica.info/public_services/citizens/your_rights/childact-030707.htm )
South Africa.info - Houghton,South Africa
The Children's Rights Centre has applauded the government's decision to put certain sections of the new Children's Act into immediate effect, stating it was ...
 
We could now be living in a fascist regime in the US ( http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/view/letters/4038341.html )
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
... identification of enemies as a unifying cause; supremacy of the military; rampant sexism; controlled mass media; obsession with national security; ...
 
Life, Liberty, Happiness ( http://www.mprize.org/index.php?ctype=news&pagename=blogdetaildisplay&BID=2007076-04072250&detaildisplay=N )
Methuselah Foundation - Washington,DC,USA
In seeking out life, liberty, and happiness, humanity has faced three formidable enemies: Oppression and poverty stand in the way of liberty and the pursuit ...
 
Hundreds March in Ecuadorian Amazon to Protest Chevron's Delay ... ( http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0704-01.htm )
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland,ME,USA
The plaintiffs are demanding an environmental remediation that could cost upwards of $6 billion. The trial has now entered the final stages and a judgment ...
 
US-Iraq: Blackwater Blues for Dead Contractors' Families ( http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/us-iraq-blackwater-blues-for-dead-contractors-families/ )
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
by Bill Berkowitz / July 3rd, 2007 Ten years ago, Erik Prince, the son of a conservative multi-millionaire, founded the security consulting firm Blackwater ...
 
What Did You Say? -- Capitalism's Culture of Disrespect and Inferiority ( http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article21.php?id=564 )
Socialist Alternative - Seattle,WA,USA
This was reflected in an ideology which justified white supremacy using religious and pseudo-scientific rationales. Throughout slavery, Jim Crow and up to ...
 
Hospital refuses visiting rights to CAAH convener ( http://www.evolutionpublishing.com.au/sxnews/news/hospital-refuses-visiting-rights-to-caah-convenerarticleid102482.aspx )
SX News - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
By William Wallace Community Action Against Homophobia co-convener Shelley Dahl was last week refused the right to see her partner in hospital. ...
 
Don't Look Gay: Why American Men Are Afraid of Intimacy with Each ... ( http://www.alternet.org/sex/55816/ )
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
It's a product of the culture of male homophobia in America which pushes men to avoid intimacy and gay stereotypes. On Saturday afternoon at the Cineplex ...
 
Estonia's income inequality among worst in EU: study ( http://www.eubusiness.com/Estonia/1183564828.84 )
EUbusiness (press release) - Richmond,Surrey,UK
(TALLINN) - The booming Baltic state of Estonia has among the most marked income inequality in the European Union, according to a report released on ...
 
The Fourth is Anti-Imperialist Day ( http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/04/18433152.php )
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Smedley Butler By Steven Argue Today is a celebration of a revolution against imperialism, that being the American Revolution against British imperialism. ...
 
3 in Las Vegas face slavery charges involving Chinese acrobats ( http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2007/jul/04/070410051.html )
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Three men were being held in Las Vegas on slavery charges, accused of detaining members of a Chinese acrobat team against their will. ...
 
2000 Days of Guantanamo ( http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=17370 )
Aljazeera.com - London,UK
2000 days of illegal imprisonment; 2000 days of torture; 2000 days of brutality; 2000 days of injustice. 4th July 2007 marks 2000 days of Guantanamo Bay ...
 
 
 
 

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