30 August, 2010

Latin America in Crisis: An Expert Witness Responds

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Comunicas.- Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner of Columbia University is a world-renowned scholar and filmmaker. She has been named as one of the nation’s “100 Most influential Latinos” by Hispanic Business. Born in Puerto Rico, her work spans several fields, including mass media, literature, cultural criticism, migration, and politics. Antony Adolf of Change.org had the opportunity to [...]

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26 August, 2010

Privatizing the occupation

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Comunicas.- Market extremists argue that the private sector can do almost everything better than governments. The most extreme do not concede the qualifier “almost” and argue that even the police and army should be privatized. The growth of private security companies (PSC) is generally seen as a result of the success of extreme market arguments. [...]

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26 August, 2010

United States as an exporter of terrorism?, a CIA question

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Comunicas.- A CIA memo published Wednesday on the Wikileaks website addresses what would happen if it became internationally known that the United States exports terrorism. The three-page secret document titled “What If Foreigners See the United States as an ‘Exporter of Terrorism?’” and dated February 2 of this year, says that the phenomenon of exporting [...]

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25 August, 2010

The Washington Times in other hands

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Comunicas.- The owner of The Washington Times entered into an agreement Tuesday to sell the newspaper to another entity affiliated with its parent, the Unification Church, which would return funding to the cash-strapped conservative publication, POLITICO has learned. The agreement was made Tuesday afternoon between News World Communications, the paper’s parent company, chaired by Preston [...]

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6 September, 2010

The state of poverty and hunger around the World

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Comunicas.- In the year 2000, 189 world leaders came together to make a historic promise: they would form a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty through a series of eight targets, all to be achieved by the deadline of 2015. These targets, which have become known as the Millennium Development Goals, are in the [...]

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2 September, 2010

Republicans platform: Welfare for the rich

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Comunicas.- Something important happened this week: Republican leaders in Congress finally came out for something. Don’t knock it. This is progress. We know what they’re against: anything President Obama is for. He’s for tax breaks for small business; they’re against ‘em. He’s for extending unemployment benefits; they’re against it. He’s for emergency funds to states [...]

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1 September, 2010

The business of killing

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Comunicas.- On the last night of August, the president used an Oval Office speech to boost a policy of perpetual war. Hours later, the New York Times front page offered a credulous gloss for the end of “the seven-year American combat mission in Iraq.” The first sentence of the coverage described the speech as saying [...]

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1 September, 2010

2010 is the deadliest year for USA soldiers in Afghanistan

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Comunicas.- With 322 soldiers killed in Afghanistan since January, 2010 is now the deadliest year for U.S. troops since the invasion began in 2001. According to the website icasualties.org, U.S. troops account for 317 of the 521 foreign casualties reported by the occupation forces, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. The number of U.S. soldiers [...]

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31 August, 2010

World’s largest Solar Plant will be constructed in California desert

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Comunicas.- It’s not for nothing the U.S. Southwest is called the “Saudi Arabia of solar energy.” The vast deserts of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Utah have some of the highest solar radiation levels in the world, not to mention wide-open tracks of federally-owned land just asking for development. It should be a [...]

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31 August, 2010

Drinking milk may reduce the garlic breath

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Comunicas.- If you are worried about garlic breath, drink a glass of milk, say scientists who claim it can stop the lingering odour. In tests with raw and cooked cloves, milk “significantly reduced” levels of the sulphur compounds that give garlic its flavour and pungent smell. The authors told the Journal of Food Science it [...]

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