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  • PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS On the road to economic recovery

    PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS On the road to economic recovery

    July 4, 2009 By John Case

    This week, July 4, 2009, on the road to economic recovery. The official unemployment rate now exceeds 9.5%--the worst in at least 25 years. The unofficial -- including discouraged, underemployed, and otherwise discarded workers -- rises...

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  • Cuba-US:  Frosty relations no bar to communication

    Cuba-US: Frosty relations no bar to communication

    July 4, 2009

    HAVANA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Cuba and the United States are poised to resume talks on migration issues any time now, although the five Cuban agents imprisoned in the U.S. remain 'a formidable obstacle' to normalising...

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  • Fight to save Troy Davis grows

    Fight to save Troy Davis grows

    July 4, 2009

    The NAACP has initiated an “I am Troy Campaign” as part of worldwide effort to prevent the execution of Troy Davis, a 40-year-old man on death row in Georgia. Davis, who is African American, was convicted...

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  • EDITORIAL Zelaya must return as president to Honduras

    EDITORIAL Zelaya must return as president to Honduras

    July 4, 2009

    The coup d’etat carried out against the legally elected president of Honduras last Sunday is meeting with worldwide resistance that is as strong as it is broad. Literally, not a single country around the world is...

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  • In political sex scandals, guys still rule

    In political sex scandals, guys still rule

    July 4, 2009

    Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--Has anybody else noticed that most news stories about politicians' affairs aren't really about women? There are women in them, of course. There's the Wronged Wife, who is often portrayed as a victim in...

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