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87 suicides recensés dans les prisons françaises depuis début 2008
Que se passe t-il dans les prisons françaises ? Nous devons savoir. ? Hort 87 suicides recensés en prison depuis début 2008, Dati annonce des mesures 10/10/08 Quatre vingt-sept détenus se sont suicidés en prison depuis le début de l'année, un chiffre...
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Les voyous de l'Arche de Zoé
http://www.editionsduboiris.com/ Enquête sur un kidnapping d'enfants Charles Onana Editions Duboiris, 2008, 176 pages, 20 euros A partir d’un mensonge sur le « génocide au Darfour » soutenu par Georges W. Bush et les néo-conservateurs aux Etats-Unis puis...
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Pensions des tirailleurs sénégalais : le réveil tardif du PS
Pensions des tirailleurs sénégalais : le réveil tardif du PS Par Boureima Diallo L'Observateur Paalga | 23/10/2008 (De Ouagadougou) La Seconde Guerre mondiale. Une grande épreuve pour la France, l’Allemagne, la Pologne… bref pour l’humanité tout entière....
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An Open Letter to Barack Obama: Between Hope and Reality
An Open Letter to Barack Obama: Between Hope and Reality Ralph_Nader November 3, 2008 Dear Senator Obama, In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is...
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Samora Machel's Birth Place Declared 'Cultural Heritage'
http://allafrica. com/stories/ 200810010056. html Mozambique: Samora Machel's Birth Place Declared 'Cultural Heritage' Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo) Chilembene 1 October 2008 The Mozambican government has decided to grant the locality of...
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Relationship between government, private interests and the use of imprisonment
New JPI report examines relationship between government, private interests and the use of imprisonment The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released a new report this week examining the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)--the relationship between government...
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Where to Africa? An Afrocentric Foreign Policy?
http://www.newera. com.na/article. php?articleid= 789 Where to Africa: Towards an Afrocentric Foreign Policy? by T. Elijah Ngurare, Bernadus C. Swartbooi, Henny H. 14 November 2008 Africa is a continent of riches and yet the majority of its inhabitants...
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Children aware that white male monopoly due to "racial and gender bias"
http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20081005/ ts_alt_afp/ usvotesocietyrac ism_081005192512 Children aware of voter prejudice in US Sun Oct 5, 2008 WASHINGTON (AFP) - Children are aware white males have monopolized the US presidency, and most attribute the...
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Raising Fresh Debate On Liberal Democracy
Unlike most people I don’t fall for the idea that rabid speculators caused the financial debacle. The West are brilliant strategists and since the Asians have been taking over the economic and financial markets they have wanted to retake full control...
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Eunice Barber ou jeunes des banlieues, c'est toujours la même violence policière
Si les policiers traitent une championne connue de cette manière, ce n’est pas difficile d’imaginer leur comportement envers les jeunes des banlieues. Hort Deux mois avec sursis requis contre Eunice Barber http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/deux-mois-avec-sursis-requis-contre-eunice-barber-27-11-2008-323608.php...
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Le capitalisme touche à sa fin
Voila la raison pour laquelle Obama a été choisi comme président des états unis. C'est comme un patient qui a un cancer. Après les médecins ont tout tenté, « chirurgie, chimiothérapie, radiologie et al », et ne peuvent plus rien faire pour le patient,...
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Why indigenous and endangered languages should be preserved
Lire en francais: http://horte.over-blog.fr/article-23874795.html http://www.guardian newsngr.com/ arts/article01/ /indexn2_ html?pdate= 161008&ptitle= Why%20indigenous %20and%20endange red%20languages% 20should% 20be%20preserved Why indigenous and endangered...
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Interest Groups Spend $98 Million on White House Race
Interest Groups Spend $98 Million on White House Race By Alex Knott, Fri Nov 7, 2008 Unions, political action committees and other special interests shelled out nearly $98 million in independent expenditures to influence the presidential election, according...
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The great global heist of Congo's resources
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ opinion/commenta tors/johann- hari/johann- hari-how- we-fuel-africas- bloodiest- war-978461. html How we fuel Africa's bloodiest war Johann Hari Thursday, 30 October 2008 What is rarely mentioned is the great global heist...
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Why so few attractive reading books featuring black and Asian children?
http://www.guardian .co.uk/education /2008/oct/ 07/race.english. primaryschools Imaginary worlds where everyone is the same colour Kate Agnew The Guardian, Tuesday October 7 2008 In the early-90s I was working as a children's bookseller in Cambridge when...
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Africom, a bad omen for Africa and her people
With each passing day, I am convinced that if there are a chosen people, then it must be people of African descent, because our naivité is beyond compare. It was by allowing Europe to set up military forts all along the African coast why they were eventually...
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Tug of War in Mauritania
http://weekly. ahram.org. eg/2008/919/ re2.htm Tug of war October 25, 2008 Pulled in two directions, Mauritania's elite is determined to stay in power no matter what, says Gamal Nkrumah ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -...
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System Failure and the Need for Change
Financial Hurricane Batters World Capitalism : System Failure and the Need for Revolution by Raymond Lotta The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of letting up. The financial edifice of U.S. imperialism is in danger...
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Obama must discontinue Western support of African dictatorships
http://www.africa- confidential. com/article/ id/2832/Obama- rings-the- changes Obama rings the changes 17th October 2008 African citizens enthuse about the prospect of an Obama presidency, but their governments are much more cautious. A victory for Barack...
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Obama win raises Cubans hopes for change
Obama win raises Cubans hopes for change By Jeff Franks Jeff Franks Wed Nov 5, 2008 HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's promise of change reached across the Florida Straits on Tuesday as Cubans said his victory over John McCain gave...
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Miriam Makeba, Mama Africa, has gone to join the ancestors
Lire en francais : en bas de page http://www.sowetan. co.za/News/ Article.aspx? id=881298 Miriam Makeba, "one of the greatest songstresses of our time", died last n ight . Sowetan Online Sheba Kane Lo 10 November 2008 "Miriam Makeba, South Africa's Goodwill...
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Girl, 8, recalls 12-hour Haitian school collapse ordeal
http://www.miamiher ald.com/news/ americas/ haiti/story/ 764381.html Girl, 8, recalls 12-hour Haitian school collapse ordeal Jacqueline Charles Nov. 09, 2008 The school bell had just sounded, officially putting an end to the game of hide-and-seek, when...
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Obama inherits hardest job in decades
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/pl_mcclatchy/3092351/print President-elect Obama inherits a world of troubles By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers David Lightman, Mcclatchy Newspapers Tue Nov 4, 2008 WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama will...
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African Americans celebrate Obama's victory
Black Americans celebrate Obama's victory By Matthew Bigg Wed Nov 5, 2008 ATLANTA (Reuters) – In churches and bars, on the street and in their homes, African Americans celebrated Barack Obama's historic presidential election victory on Tuesday with tears,...
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Victoire écrasante de Barack Obama
http://actualite.aol.fr/victoire-ecrasante-de-barack-obama-premier/article/20081105001258003243920 Victoire écrasante de Barack Obama, premier président noir des Etats-Unis 4 novembre 2008 Le démocrate Barack Obama a remporté mardi une victoire historique...