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Free press? Venezuela beats the U.S.
Of course Chavez's new media law is bad. But it won't make a dent in the huge amount of press freedom in Venezuela.
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian (UK)
Denis MacShane attacks…
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China’s economics lesson to the U.S.
China's government is doing a better job than the US at coping with the effects of global economic recession
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian (UK)
Global trade and the economic…
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Honduras: Right-wing coup faltering, but its supporters have powerful friends in Washington
By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Published on Sunday, July 19, 2009 by the Independent/UK
The international group of right-wingers who staged the coup d'état against the democratic government of…
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Does the U.S. back the Honduran coup?
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian
The Obama administration's condemnation of the military coup by graduates of the School of the Americas in Honduras has been lukewarm compared to…
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Assigning blame for the economic crisis
A government investigation into the financial crisis could promote economic reform and give Democrats a big political boost
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian
Plans are already…
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Cuba’s lessons in survival
Cuba has endured the decline of oil, extreme weather and an economic crisis. Could it teach us how to do the same?
By Andrew Simms
From guardian.co.uk
The hiss from the audience…
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High-level crime
By Xavier Caño
ccs@tsai.es
In mid-December, a gap totaling more than $4 billion was found in the accounts of the Italian multinational company Parmalat. The Italian press…
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