While Kenyan women fight to have 50 seats reserved for them in Parliament, Ms Mutheu Meierhofer-Mangeli, a Kenyan living in Switzerland, has contested twice in the far away country, writes Susan Anyangu.
As women in Kenya fight for more representation, miles away in Switzerland, another woman is fighting a similar battle, albeit on another scale.
Ms [...]

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H-Net (East Lansing)
BOOK REVIEW
8 August 2007
Originally Posted to the web 8 August 2007
By Frank Biess
San Diego
That the German army engaged in a war of racial annihilation on the eastern front, first on a more limited scale in Poland, then as part of a massive genocidal campaign in the Soviet Union, has now become a [...]

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The Internet has democratized the dissemination of information but it has also unleashed a horde of unscrupulous bloggers. Hiding behind aliases and accountable to nobody, these cowards feel empowered to poison the Information Highway with profanity, libel and lies.
Not all bloggers are profane jerks, but unfortunately too many of them should confine their output [...]

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10 “Rich White Male” ReTHUGlican “War-Mongering Statues” gathered again, this time in Des Moines, Iowa — to pitch their qualifications, to succeed a horribly tarnished fellow Republican, King George “Mission Accomplished” Bush.
They attacked “socialized-medicine,” yet none offered a concrete remedy, to help 45 million un-insured Americans, instead they howled in chorus — that “Market Forces” [...]

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By: John Sammon
Columnist - John SammonSo. It all comes down to this. After four years of blunders, stupidity and deceit, this is it. We’re all waiting breathlessly for a military general (Petraeus), in September, to tell us whether Iraq is worth it. No civilians will be allowed to give their opinions, no senator, no experts [...]

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