6 September, 2010
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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
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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
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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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30 August, 2010
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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
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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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25 August, 2010
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Comunicas.- So General Motors is back to making billions in profit. And if the past is any guide, we know what that means: time for some layoffs! Or maybe not. Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown [...]
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