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Memoria Histórica en Sant Joan de Labritja

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Costa Rica: The lowest form of military aggression

by Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños

29 August 2010

On 1 July 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” There is only one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its armed forces in 1949 and since then has had no standing army, (…)

A Historic Moment:

The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 12 December 2008

Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go into the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his economic and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’ moment: The nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and warmongers. Let us join the (…)

July 7, 1456

Joan of Arc Burned Alive and Then Rehabilitated

7 July 2005

France kings’war was getting on to a hundred years. They represented a centralizing system, and on the other hand the dukes of Burgundy and the kings of England supported a feudal autonomy. Joan of Arc, who, in the name of God, defended king Charles VII of France, was captured by the followers (…)