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The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. It was led by a graduate of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas, a military facility that has trained some of Latin America’s worst torturers, murderers and human rights abusers.
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Tools of mass communication that were once the province of governments and corporations now fit in your pocket. As these technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a public health emergency in the town of Libby, Montana, where hundreds of people have died from asbestos contamination. It is the first time such a declaration has been made by the EPA. For decades, W.R. Grace and Co. mined asbestos-contaminated vermiculite in Libby.
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As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health-care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health-industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?
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Ken Saro-Wiwa and Alberto Pizango never met, but they are united by a passion for the preservation of their people and their land, and by the fervor with which they were targeted by their respective governments.
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Dr. Tiller was assassinated while in church in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, targeted for legally performing abortions. His death might have been prevented simply through enforcement of existing laws.
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Profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the courtrooms and streets of New York and San Ramon, Calif., people are fighting back against the world’s oil giants.
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We play an excerpt of the five remaining democratic presidential candidates debating each other at a nationally-televised event held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry won caucuses on Saturday in Nevada and Washington D.C. giving him victories in 14 of the first 16 contests in the Democratic presidential race.
In Washington D.C., Kerry won with 47 percent of the vote, followed by the Rev. Al Sharpton with 20 percent. Governor Howard Dean won 17 percent, Sen. John Edwards 10 and Rep. Dennis Kucinich with 3.
In Nevada, Kerry received 63 percent of the vote and Howard Dean placed second with 17 percent. Edwards won 10 percent, Kucinich 7 and Sharpton 1.
Tomorrow, voters in Wisconsin go to the polls. Dean vowed Sunday he will stay in the race even if he loses Wisconsin but the New York Times is reporting that his National Campaign Chairman Steven Grossman plans to shift his support to Kerry if Dean loses in the primary.
After Wisconsin, 10 states–including New York and California–will hold primaries on March 2nd.
All five remaining Democratic presidential contenders were in Milwaukee yesterday for a debate held at Marquette University and sponsored by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The candidates repeated their past positions on Iraq, but also said campaigning in Wisconsin had convinced them that jobs, health care and education are the issues on which Bush is most vulnerable in November.
Moderator Mike Gousha opened the debate with questions about the controversy over Bush’s attendance record while in the National Guard.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential candidate
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