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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
November 28, 2007
 
ArmorGroup warns of profit drop in fallout from Blackwater ... (
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/27/business/EU-FIN-COM-Britain-ArmorGroup.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
"The award and mobilization of a number of major contracts in Iraq
has been severely affected by the Blackwater incident in Baghdad on 16
September," the ...
 
Blackwater Faces New Death and Injury Claims and Drug Allegations ...
(
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-27-2007/0004711762&EDATE=
)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The estates of two more Iraqis killed
when Blackwater USA personnel allegedly opened fire on civilians in
Nisoor Square in ...
 
400 pack meeting on gay worker rights at schools (
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007711270301
)
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
Everyone should be free from discrimination and harassment in the
workplace, including people who are gay, lesbian and transgender --
the Fairness Campaign ...
 
Survey Shows Income Inequality Increasing (
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=020000&biid=2007112702018
)
Donga.com - Seoul,South Korea
The wage gap between individuals with different levels of education
has been widening because the average wage of college graduates has
been increasing at a ...
 
South Africa: Telling Neglect in Race Institute's Poverty Study (
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711270494.html )
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
It is important to note that, officially, there is no consistent time
series data on poverty and inequality trends over time. ...
 
Poverty And Public Policy (
http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=31122 )
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
The concep-tualisation of poverty is very crucial not only for
identifying and measuring it but also for its important implications
in designing ...
 
Has the class struggle been "offshored"? (
http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/654/654_05_Globalization.shtml
)
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
IT'S AN indisputable fact that important changes have taken place in
the structure of the global economy and of the American working class.
...
 
World Against War conference: messages from international activists (
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13632 )
Socialistworker.co.uk - London,UK
'This world is full of injustices * oppression, occupation, criminal
wars and warmongers. Governments and leaders are attempting to mislead
their people and ...
 
EU Ignores Public, Expands Powers (
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4492.0.100.0 )
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
This reflects a clear policy of imperialism crafted by eu
technocrats. Europe's past as an imperial power is one of the great
blots on the history of man. ...
 
Pakistan, Iran & US imperialism's phony "War on Terror" (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr012=pd3ax4k0m1.app13a&page=NewsArticle&id=7685&news_iv_ctrl=1501
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
The vast majority of Pakistanis despise Musharraf and his service to
US imperialism. President Musharraf has been a principal ally in the
US war for ...
 
UN report urges aid for world's poor on global warming (
http://www.kgan.com/template/inews_wire/wires.international/2f2ef03f-www.kgan.com.shtml
)
KGAN - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The Bush administration is responding
to a UN panel that says global warming "could stall and then reverse
human development" ...
 
Rush Limbaugh Takes On Quantum Physics (and Global Warming) (
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/rush-limbaugh-t.html )
Wired News - USA
We couldn't cause global warming; we couldn't cause global cooling;
we can't do diddly-squat. We're just inhabitants here." I'd make some
hot air joke, ...
 
Philippines military killed left-wing activists, UN rights experts
... (
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/26/news/UN-GEN-UN-Philippines-Political-Killings.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
The view echoes a recent demand by the US Senate that the Philippines
prosecute human rights violators * including soldiers * before it can
receive ...
 
Brutishness on campus (
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=792674 )
The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston,Ontario,Canada
Racism is intolerable, and this institution has been battling a
perception that its "culture of whiteness and maleness" damages the
atmosphere for ...
 
One in three TO families live in poverty: report (
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20071126/poverty_report_071126/20071126?hub=TorontoHome
)
CTV.ca - Canada
Almost one in three families in Toronto is living in poverty, a
"deeply troubling" statistic that makes the city the poverty capital
of Canada, according to ...
 
Poverty is top health destroyer (
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4289750a6502.html )
Manawatu Standard - Wellington,New Zealand
By JANINE RANKIN - Manawatu Standard | Tuesday, 27 November 2007 Sick
children are the product of poverty, and doctors can only treat what
the whole ...
 
Race discrimination protests beaten back (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2943222.ece
)
Times Online - UK
KUALA LUMPUR Police use teargas and chemical-laced water to halt a
protest against discrimination by more than 10000 ethnic minority
Indians - a rare street ...
 
Hmong Rally in Madison for Justice in Marinette County (
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7411300 )
WBAY - Green Bay,WI,USA
Their message was, Wisconsin needs to get tough on racial injustice.
They believe Vang was murdered because of his race but Nichols was
never charged with a ...
 
Theory and Practice of Class Struggle in a Socialist Market Economy (
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6189/1/297/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
I argued that if the class interests that dominate the state are
those of the working class, then the trade-union movement can utilize
the leverage of the ...
 
Police terrorism: When will it stop? (
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=84113&sID=34
)
Amsterdam News - Baltimore,MD,USA
White supremacy is organized racism. In retrospect, the Brawley case
has also been about mind control. Steven Biko said it best: "The most
potent weapon in ...
 
Rehabilitation vs. Retaliating Reactionary Revenge (
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20071125185752604
)
Infoshop News - USA
The face of Amerikan White Supremacy. The US government and the
Prison Industrial Complex are both reactionary in their very basic
nature. ...
 
Revealed: Gay Pupils at Top English Independent School Suffer
Bullying ( http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/Nov/2601.htm )
UK Gay News (press release) - UK
The email's "Subject": Homophobia at Christian Boarding School. "I am
sick of them and their abusive attitudes and behaviour," he wrote of
his tormentors. ...
 
The Globalization of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment (
http://blog.nj.com/statattack/2007/11/the_globalization_of_antiimmig.html
)
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
2007 might be remembered in New Jersey as the year in which
immigration emerged as an explosive local issue. But here's some
perspective from the folks at ...
 
Immigrants Pull Weight in Economy, Study Finds (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26report.html?ref=nyregion
)
New York Times - United States
By PATRICK McGEEHAN Immigrants contribute nearly one-fourth of the
economic output of New York State, and outside of New York City, they
are overrepresented ...
 
HIV/AIDS Awareness in the Health Professions (
http://www.pacificu.edu/calendar/detail.cfm?CALENDAR_ID=3350 )
Pacific University - Forest Grove,OR,USA
The Center for Gender Equity and the Health Professions Campus are
promoting awareness and sharing strategies regarding the various
health care issues ...
 
Policy on equality for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and ... (
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=219 )
Socialist Alliance (press release) - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
Support Pride Marches, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, film
and video festivals and other queer community events; defend and
extend gay, lesbian and ...
 
Gender inequality in Malta (
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20071125/local/gender-inequality-in-malta-worse-than-china-report
)
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
Half of the 100000 or so inactive Maltese women say they are prepared
to start working given the right conditions. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli.
...
 
The 'War on Women' continues unabated (
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=83365&sc=86 )
St. John's Telegram - St. John's,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
It is this inequality that allows the violence to continue at such a
breathtaking and heartbreaking rate. The truth of it is: violence
against women is ...
 
Bush declares war on poverty-stricken (
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071125/OPINION/711250322/1050
)
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... on record as being opposed to family planning, to head the
program that oversees Title X. Many years ago President Johnson
declared war on poverty. ...
 
Thousands of Malaysian Indians Protest Discrimination (
http://voanews.com/english/2007-11-25-voa5.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
By Heda Bayron Malaysian police broke up a protest against
discrimination by 10000 ethnic Indians. As voa's Heda Bayron
reports from our Asia News Center in ...
 
Bias Widespread In Food Aid Distribution, Zimbabwe Civic Group
Charges (
http://voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2007-11-25-voa13.cfm )
Voice of America - USA
Such discrimination, which in some cases included harassment and
violence, occurred nationally, according to the organization. ...
 
 
 
 

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