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Fidel Castro, Fidel’s Speech in Geneva, 14 May 1998
The following is the full text of the speech delivered by Cuban President Fidel Castro at the Palace of Nations in Geneva on the occasion of the presentation to him of the Health for All Medal by the World Health Organization, Thursday, May 14, 1998. Your excellencies, officials of the WHO, distinguished delegates.Intervention? Libya
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The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, hostage to a massive arms industry, and so adept at deception and self-delusion they no longer know truth from lies.
Chris Hedges: Why I Am a Socialist - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
Beyond the age of austerity, a new pattern of resistance and revolution emerges
The recent visit of the Pope to Cuba has again focussed upon the island and the economic and political changes it is under-going. Ahead of his visit, Pope Benedict had suggested Cuba's "Marxist" structure "no longer corresponds to reality" and called for the adoption of a "new model" . Pope Benedict XVI has urged Cubans to build an "open and renewed society" .
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George Galloway pulled off a spectacular political comeback on Thursday of last week by winning the Bradford West parliamentary by-election by a landslide

