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• Obama backs Yoani Sanchez

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 642
  At her blog Generation Y, the brave Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez has posted President Obama’s responses to seven questions she submitted to him. Obama prefaced his answers as follows: Thank you for this opportunity to exchange views with you and your readers in Cuba and around the world and congratulations on ...
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• The Annual Protest at the School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 574
  Erwin reminds us that today is the day of the annual protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas. The name-change happened back in 2001, when the Bush administration realized the Schools name had been associated with some of the worst ...
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• What They Said

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 521
  From  Mondoweiss - The situation, in a nutshell Anna Baltzer, Author , And Haithem El-Zabri, Founder Of The Palestine Online Store . Austin, Tx, November 2008
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• Women’s rights across Africa

  
  Black Looks — Authority: 461
  This weeks Pambazuka News has a special Women’s issues focusing on the last 15 years since Beijing Platform for Action and the future for women’s rights on the continent. The essays cover securing women’s rights, gender and conflict, what has been achieved to date and a programme for action for the 16 [...]
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• Support for blogger is sought in Spain

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 132
  The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Congress next Wednesday will debate a motion of support for Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez and other oppositionists, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Saturday. The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Carlos Salvador , a deputy from the Navarran Peoples Union, asks ...
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• ACFDA Publication SeikGyi

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
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• phyu-sayadawgyi by Niknayman

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ရွင္ နိဳင္ငံေက်ာ္ဓမၼကထိက ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပသာသနာျပဳ ျဖဴးဆရာေတာ္ဘုရားၾကီး ဘဒၵႏၱနရပတိ သည္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ၊ ...
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• Bihar’s junior doctors call off strike

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Patna, Nov 21 (IANS) Bihar’s junior doctors called off their 12-day strike Saturday evening following an assurance that the state government will pay the increased stipend promised to them in August, officials said.The assurance was given by the Indian Medical Association.Officials said that 500 junior doctors of ...
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• A look at men’s groups vs. feminism at Forbes

  
  Dean's World — Authority: 524
  Cathy Young addresses the issues of men’s groups, domestic violence, and feminism at Forbes: Earlier this month DoubleX, Slate’s short-lived female-oriented publication (launched six months ago and about to be folded back into the parent site as a women’s section), ran an article ringing the alarm about the ...
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• Quote of the Day: Imbeciles

  
  Savage Popcorn — Authority: 126
  This is going to cripple the long tail of the creative sector — it plays entirely to the interests of large corporate media organizations and shits on the plate of us ordinary working artists. - Charlie Stross on the UK Governments Digital Economy Bill
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• salutin: the abu ghraib effect with the imprint of a maple leaf

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 135
  Bravo Rick Salutin! Our own little Abu Ghraib? The nauseating component in current claims and reactions about Canadas role in turning Afghan detainees over for torture does not lie in the betrayal of some mythic Canadian role as an idealistic actor on the world stage – as opposition questions implied in the ...
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• More on the Selection of Stand-By Counsel

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 597
  by Kevin Jon Heller It is becoming increasingly clear that the Registry made no attempt to comply with the Appeals Chamber’s decision in Seselj .  I have now learned that the Registry arranged for Dr. Karadzic to meet with five defence barristers, including Mr. Harvey.  Dr. Karadzic was then given a deadline ...
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• National Reconciliation, Shwe-Gone-Daing Declaration & 1990/2010

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
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• International Symposium Gateway to National Reconsiliation

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  ယခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလ(၂၉)ရက္ေန႔က ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းရွိ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္မွ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားခဲ့ေသာ ...
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• Thitsar-21-Master1

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
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• Phkidoh Palu Battle

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
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• Malalai Joya: A Woman Among Warlords Pt 1

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladTheRealNewsNovember 20, 2009Joya: US backed fundamentalism is at the root of the Afghan problem; Foreign troops should get out nowMalalai Joya is an Afghan politician who has been called “the bravest woman in Afghanistan.” As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has ...
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• Russian high court bans death penalty

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 495
  Russia’s decision to continue its ban on the death penalty was praised by the Council on Europe and media in Europe Thursday and Friday. The country’s Constitutional Court 18 November decided to continue indefinitely a country-wide moratorium on the death penalty, in place since 1999, which was scheduled to end in ...
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• Economic crisis, workers fight back

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 446
  This video is called The Real New York City - Insight into Homelessness. USA: New York City homeless population at an all-time high: here . Protests continued Friday at university campuses across California in opposition to a 32 percent hike in fees: here . The recent meeting at Schloss Merseburg between ...
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• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (video)

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 119
  Listen to the incredible poetic artistry of Gil Scott Heron ’s “ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ,” which appeared on his first album Pieces of a Man (1971). My favorite paragraph is undoubtedly this one: “The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised, will not ...
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