The World Health Organization declared China free of malaria June 30, after China’s decades of work toward eradicating the disease. WHO noted: “Underpinning China’s malaria elimination success was an unwavering political commitment, at all levels of government, to ending the disease over a 70-year period.” (tinyurl.com/umfb82k) For the past four . . .
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The Pentagon withdrew its forces from Bagram Air Field in Kabul July 2. Corporate media presented this event as an irreversible step in Washington’s departure from the nearly 20-year-old occupation of Afghanistan. Some 650 U.S. troops still guard the U.S. Embassy, and there are many thousands of “contractors” — mercenaries . . .
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First published in Workers World in October 1996, before the U.S. government treated the Taliban as an enemy. The media are suddenly full of opinions about Afghanistan, now that the George W. Bush administration is accusing Osama bin Laden and other Islamic fundamentalists of being behind the attacks on the . . .
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Oakland, California Youth from the Decarcerate Alameda County coalition rallied at the Board of Supervisors June 22 to demand that funding be pulled from the county sheriff’s budget and reallocated for mental health services. Speakers pointed out that 44% of the 4,000 people incarcerated at the Alameda County Santa Rita . . .
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En 2017, para justificar los cambios en el Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria, (SNAP, siglas en ingles), el representante Jodey Arrington se apoyó en las escrituras – específicamente en 2 Tesalonicenses 3-10: “Si un hombre no trabaja, no comerá”. (Washington Post, 31 de marzo de 2017) El congresista republicano abogaba . . .
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