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Archive for April 12th, 2008

Pope won’t break bread with Bush

anthony @ 16:10 BST
Nick Juliano | rawstory | Friday April 11, 2008
Pontiff not attending dinner in his honor, White House says
The White House has scheduled a dinner next week in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the United States, but one guest will be conspicuously absent from the proceedings: the pope himself.
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Soros Says the Pain Has only just Begun

anthony @ 13:23 BST
George Soros Part 1

George Soros Part 2
Louise Story | International Herald Tribune | Friday, April 11, 2008
George Soros will not go quietly.
At the age of 77, Soros, one the world’s most successful investors and richest men, leapt out of retirement last summer to safeguard his fortune and legacy. [...]

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It’s Occupation, Not War

Sudhan @10:55 CET
Charles Reese | Antiwar, April 12, 2008
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended some years ago. In Iraq, the war ended with the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government; in Afghanistan, with the fall of the Taliban government. What’s been happening since is occupation and resistance to occupation.
It’s always helpful to call things by [...]

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