Month: January 2006

Democracy Undone in Haiti

[Promoted by susanhu — As rough as we’ve got it in our own country’s political struggle, seemingly crawling up Denali without support equipment or oxygen, there is a country so near us whose people are falling...

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Coretta Scott King dead at 78

Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., has died, former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young said today. The 78-year-old Mrs. King died in her sleep. Bernice King, one of her daughters, found her about 1...

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Democracy Failures In Middle East Under Bush

. Vladimir Putin on world affairs in annual press conference yesterday :: Asked by a correspondent of the Al-Jazeera television channel, if he regarded the victory of HAMAS in the parliamentary election in Palestine as a failure...

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Democrat or Independent or Other?

I debated this diary for a while last night and decided a sleeping pill and some sleep was a better idea first. But there are lots of arguments around as to why we should stay registered Democrats…and lots of emotions as...

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