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Commentary :: Children : Civil & Human Rights : Health : International Relations : Iraq : Political-Economy : Regime : Right Wing
Culture of Life or Culture of Living Death?: From Terry Schiavo to Iraq
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23 Mar 2005
In the right context, these same people, or at least George W. Bush, are just fine with having the state terminate care to a patient against the guardian's will, as happened just a few days ago with a poor black baby in Houston, Texas - killed under the auspices of the Texas Futile Care Law, signed by Bush when he was governor of Texas.

This right wing apparently has a belief in preserving life only where that life is almost devoid of meaning - and where the HMO industry doesn't interfere. It's not a culture of life; it's a culture of living death.
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights : Health
Medicare 100 and Plus Programs Reinstated!
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23 Mar 2005
Today we are deeply pleased to announce that CCHCC and Provena Covenant Medical Center have settled the lawsuit filed by CCHCC in 1999, and together we are reinstating the Medicare 100 and Medicare Plus Programs.
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News :: Agriculture : Civil & Human Rights : Economy : Elections & Legislation : Globalization : International Relations : Labor : Latin America : Political-Economy : Right Wing
CAFTA Terror In the Highlands: Death, Mayan women and free trade
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23 Mar 2005
Four women with only their words for protection were the ones who finally persuaded Guatemalan soldiers and police to stop firing on unarmed protesters in the Indigenous municipality of Colotenango last Tuesday (March 14) where at least two civilians lost their lives and many more were wounded.
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Commentary :: Economy
What is Neoliberalism?
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23 Mar 2005
Every search for alternatives must question the "great narratives" of the free market, efficiency, competition and entrepreneurship.
Economic laws could be analyzed as social constructions and economic models as social models.
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News :: Elections & Legislation : International Relations : Latin America : Political-Economy
Sandinista Official Says U.S. Is Meddling
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23 Mar 2005
Tomas Borge said Washington's criticisms amount to meddling in Nicaragua's internal politics.

"The United States is trying to discredit us ... with the ultimate goal of making us lose the elections," he said. "But we are going to win."
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Drugs : Government Secrecy : Prisons : Protest Activity
Putting a Hitch in Informant Culture
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23 Mar 2005
Modified: 09:30:13 AM
The so-called "war on drugs" would swiftly grind to a halt if cops had to do any of the work themselves. That is why they use informants -- they expect those they target to do all the heavy-lifting. Stripping the mask of secrcy from this disreputable approach to policing is http://www.whosarat.com/
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News :: Protest Activity
Intellectual Ferment in the Party
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22 Mar 2005
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QUESTION : I was just wondering if you could speak a little bit to how—while not throwing out democratic centralism or something like that—how do you have the party in the mix of all of these ideas? You went to China and you talked to these people around how China was opening up to the West and saying Marcos was a great leader and this, that and the other, and you were asking these people in the Chinese party and they didn't have the answers. And part of it is: did those people not have the answers, or did they have some questions on it, but they were more debating it internally and they couldn't talk to you about it? How can you have the mix of people being able to be in the midst of all the questions that are going on, intellectually—political questions, but also in the ideological realm—without breaking democratic centralism? How do you have people in the mix of that, being able to engage it and even in some ways go off in the wrong direction in order to eventually get to the right direction, but then not have that cause a splintering effect. You know?

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News :: Protest Activity
Over 75 Reports of Protests on M 19
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22 Mar 2005
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world demonstrated against the War in Iraq on Mar. 19th and 20th.
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LOCAL News :: Iraq : Protest Activity
IMC Radio News March 21, 2005
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22 Mar 2005
Modified: 10:08:20 AM
To listen to this week's edition of the IMC Radio News for Urbana Champaign, visit http://radio.ucimc.org
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Commentary :: Agriculture : Children : Civil & Human Rights : Economy : Education : Environment : Globalization : Health : Housing : International Relations : Labor : Latin America : Political-Economy : Regime
The World Bank: A Problem Bigger than Wolfowitz
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22 Mar 2005
In short, despite liberal sentiments among many of its staff, the World Bank is not a liberal institution. In fact it is so illiberal in practice that some of the United States' most prominent socially responsible investment funds (e.g., the Calvert group), largest unions (Service Employees International Union), and ten city governments have all pledged to boycott the World Bank's bonds -- which are commonly held by institutional investors -- until it reforms some of its most abusive polices toward developing countries.
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