Written by David Brooks RECENTLY, a presidential quintet met in Texas to celebrate the opening of a library bearing the name of one of them, thereby rehabilitating, according to public opinion, one of the worst presidents of the modern era. The George W. Bush Presidential Library was inaugurated in the presence of former presidents of this country and the current one, Barack Obama. These were ...

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  Are we Listening to Bob Marley?By Julian "Jingles" Reynolds Natural MysticLyrics by Bob Marley There's a natural mystic blowing through the air;If you listen carefully now you will hear.This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last:Many more will have to suffer,Many more will have to die - don't ask me why. My brethren, the reggae icon from Jamaica, the late Robert Nesta ...

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a new report released Tuesday. Somalia, Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic are the five countries with the highest rates of such deaths, according to the report "Surviving the First Day" from ...

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 It is befitting to reflect on one of the greatest icon  of Jamaican birth that created  mankind greatest inspirational movement during the period of Jim Crow laws in the United States of America of which the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a victim. It is not a coincident that our Government since independence have strive to crush the teachings and practises of our National ...

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The Jamaica Patriotic Movement on behalf of the people of jamaica congratulate Nicolas Maduru for winning and affirming the policies of Hugo Chavez. This victory is a welcome one for Latin America,the Caribbean and all the worlds poor and working class people who are demanding a change for a better life. The Petro- Caribe agreement of which Jamaica is a signatory is in safe hands and will help in ...

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With the failure of its Plan B (destabilization), the Venezuelan opposition finally, on April 17, called on the National Electoral Council (CNE). It took three days for the Capriles Radonski campaign staff to make a formal complaint calling for a recount of the votes. Before they could arrive at this level of "civilized" behavior, eight people – all Maduro supporters - had to die and the entire ...

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A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago. A virtually infinite number of life forms ...

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In keeping with our tradition of letting the truth be known we have decided to publish the full text of Fidel Castro,s tribute to his friend and comrade the late Hugo Chavez. The main stream media purposely and consistently only report half truth and complete lies to fool our people . THE best friend the Cuban people have had throughout their history died on the afternoon of March 5. A call via ...

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 by Norman Markowitz Before Hugo Chavez was widely known in the U.S., Irish film-makers, doing a documentary about Chavez during his second term as Venezeula, found themselves in the middle of a coup lanched by the Venezuelan oligarchy with the support and aid of the U.S. against his government. Although Chavez life was in danger, as were the lives of other members of his government and ...

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On behalf of the people of Jamaica we want to extend to the people of Venezuela our heartfelt condolences to the passing of a true nationalist and anti-imperialist. We thank you Chavez for showing us your kindness and sympathy for the least among us in provide us relief through the petro-caribe program with discounted fuel cost and monetary assistance for development projects. We also thank you ...

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  Claudia Fonseca Sosa "TODAY we live in a world characterized by injustice, in which powerful nations have the authority to decide how to use the natural resources of less developed countries and the prices they will pay for them. A world in which the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer."These comments were made by Wynter Kabimba, General Secretary of the governing Patriotic Front ...

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The government and the opposition labor party did not take into consideration the impact of this agreement on the majority of our people who are already burden with this monstrous high cost of living. This agreement exposes the collusion between the Private Sector, the governing party, the opposition and the international monetary fund.If precedence is any guide the last agreement saw only the ...

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The negotiation between our government and the technical IMF team has just concluded with an agreement to keep our country debt load extended and increasing with no end in sight. The international monetary fund is the lending arm of the capitalist country with the United States as the majority shareholder, thus the kingmaker. It is design to keep your economy tied to the western financial system. ...

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The Jamaican government and the opposition labor Party are both crying foul over the January 8th publication by one of Americas leading rightist newspaper,the chicago tribune, blaming both political actors for our country's astronomical debt problems. The tribune was correct in that regards but hypocritical in stating the real reason behind both Jamaican and Greece debt woes. The tribune, our ...

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THE Pentagon has announced that it is to send small Army teams to 35-plus African countries in 2013. U.S. to send military missions to more than 35 African countries in 2013Initially, the objectives of the U.S. military teams will be confined to training and equipping national armies. They could participate in military operations, although this would require a special order from the Defense ...

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Drones in the Persian Gulf and memories of Tonkin Moises Saab* IN 1964, Lyndon Baines Johnson inherited the U.S. presidency from the assassinated John F. Kennedy and the intention to initiate a conflict which Washington was sure of winning. Barely three years had passed since the failure of the Bay of Pigs adventure and South East Asia was a suitably distant area, in addition to which the ...

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Jamaica Patriotic movement call for the security council of the United Nations to call for a no-fly zone to protect the Palestinian people from the fascist regime currently ruling Israel. The State of Israel, the only nuclear armed country in the Middle East have been occupying and building on Palestinian lands creating what the former president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, describe as an ...

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The former Prime Minister, the honorable P J Patterson was honored by his compatriot in parliament for his service to his country. This gentleman presided over the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, the highest murder rate ever existed in Jamaica, carried out a armed incursion into Tivoli gardens that saw lifeless black poor Jamaicans lying in the burning sun, a result of the ...

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THE resolution "On the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba by the United States was approved today at the UN, with 188 member countries of the organization voting in favor of it. In a plenary session of the 67th UN General Assembly, broadcast live by Telesur, the resolution was only opposed by the U.S., Israel and Palau, while the Marshall Islands and ...

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The Jamaica Patriotic Movement wishes to congratulate the president on defeating the tea party represented by their salesman, Mitt Romney.Mr President the American people have given you a second chance to remain in the white house and complete the basic reform of a system that benefit greatly the rich at the expense of the poor, middle class and working people. We know you did try to work ...

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