Six months ago the United States was already deep in a financial crisis. Yet, the conditions now are several orders of magnitude worse and are affecting the entire world.
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A far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis.
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The below article is based on a paper presented on October 8 by Eric Toussaint to the international Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis seminar held in Caracas. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes and is abridged from socialist e-journal Links, Links. Toussaint is from the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt.
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Theyve been trying to solve problems by using only money, but not to solve the political problems through political means, that theyve failed, Fretilin leader Mari Alkatiri, told Radio Australia on October 26.
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It was a powerful symbol. At the New York summit meeting at the UN General Assembly on September 22, the first point on the agenda was forgotten amid the financial crisis.
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Former US diplomat Henry Kissingers recorded telephone conversations (telecons) relating to Chile in the early 1970s permit us to eavesdrop on the most candid conversations of US officials as they plotted covert intervention against a democratically elected government, according to National Security Archive (NSA) scholar and The Pinochet File author Peter Kornbluh.
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On November 23, we will not just be voting for this or that governorship, we will be deciding the destiny of this revolutionary process, Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) militant, told Green Left Weekly.
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Between October 15 and 17, thousands of West Papuans held rallies for self-determination in several parts of this Melanesian nation that has been occupied by Indonesia since 1962.
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Tensions continue to grow between the US and Bolivia as more evidence comes to light of the former’s role in stoking right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales.
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Theyre not happy, these bankers whove been forced to resign, are they?
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Its not only South America that is changing, but also Central America, Margarita Lopez, a deputy in the El Salvadorian National Assembly and political commission member of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), told Green Left Weekly.
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More than 380 delegates participated at the sixth congress of the General Union of Saguia El Hamra and Rio de Oro (-Western Sahara) Workers (UGTSARIO) in the Western Saharan refugee camp of El Aaiun in south-west Algeria from October 19-21.