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November 26, 2008

Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Obama, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

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The cold war has concluded nearly everywhere and is not going to restart. Dmitri Medvedev-Vladimir Putin's Russia is often disgruntled, and seeking to expand its influence, but no longer aggressively ideological; China is likely to continue behaving, as the current financial crisis demonstrates...

November 6, 2008

Farewell, Republican America , Sidney Blumenthal

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On 29 July 2008, President George W Bush appeared at the Lincoln Electric Company in Euclid, Ohio, where he spoke about energy and then asked the audience for questions. The opportunity for people in a small town in the midwest to pose a question directly to the president of the United States is ...

October 29, 2008

The wrong turn (1): ‘half a feminist vote', Rosemary Bechler

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Isn't it time to draw the line when Mary Beard, whom I greatly admire, inanely supposes on Women's Hour that Sarah Palin deserved ‘half a feminist vote'? Which half: what feminist? What on earth did she mean? There have been various attempts to equip with arguments American Republic...

September 10, 2008

US Republicans: the Bush legacy, openDemocracy

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10:55 minutes (10 MB)Intro - Bush admin as a regime, rather than administration. He goes on to describe the some of the personalities involved, the mis-management of the Iraq project, and the illegitimacy of the foundation of Bush govt on 2000 election. ...