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** Pope Francis warns on nuclear weapons; official Italy silent ([link removed] )
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Published in Il Manifesto on Nov. 26. Translation by John Catalinotto. Italy’s politicians and corporate media, usually eloquent about any news concerning the Pope, greeted with the silence of the tomb the words pronounced by Francis on Nov. 24 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “The use of atomic energy for war . . .

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** Graduate student workers on strike at Harvard ([link removed] )
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Cambridge, Mass. On Dec. 3, 4,000 graduate student workers went on strike at Harvard University at both the Cambridge and Boston campuses. These members of Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers are fighting for a contract that includes better pay; comprehensive, affordable health care; improved family leave stipends; and protections . . .

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** Food stamps on the chopping block / A tale of two budgets ([link removed] )
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The gang of flunkies for the super-rich running the show in Washington, D.C., are proposing to cut 700,000 people off food stamps. Here are some facts to keep in mind when assessing the magnitude of their latest crime against humanity. The U.S. has the most arable land in the world . . .

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** ‘December in Chicago’ ([link removed] )
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By Mumia Abu-Jamal This slightly edited version is taken from a Dec. 8 audio commentary on prisonradio.org. It was an early morning in December 1969 when a joint FBI/Chicago police crew raided an apartment building, ostensibly for weapons charges. In fact, they came to kill Fred Hampton, chairman of the . . .

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** Attack on Bolivia and Venezuela followed the same playbook ([link removed] )
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Slightly edited version published in Sputnik World, Dec. 7. Translation by Michael Otto. The different steps followed by the coup d’état in Bolivia can be matched with what the right wing is desperately trying to pull off in Venezuela. Both processes have unfolded according to what appears to be a . . .

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