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COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia
July 19, 2009Original source: . Reposted by permission of the author. In the past month, two seemingly unrelated events have turned Central Asia into a potential flashpoint: an aggressively expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a nascent...
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COMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis who should pay the bill?
July 19, 2009WHITTIER, Calif. — California’s state budget is still being debated with continued threats of cuts and services to the most needed in our state. Here in California we all continue to be on pins and needles...
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Pressure mounts to end Cuban travel ban
July 18, 2009CHICAGO -- Pressure is mounting on multiple fronts to end U.S. government travel and trade restrictions against Cuba: the only country in the world American citizens cannot freely visit. The battle is increasingly centering in the...
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Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras
July 18, 2009While every day dramatic scenes are acted out on the streets of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and other cities in Honduras, pro- and anti-coup forces are also active in the United States, and especially on Capitol...
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Reports of the death of union card check still premature
July 18, 2009A report in the New York Times today that says senators have “dropped” the majority sign-up provision of the Employee Free Choice Act is not accurate. A spokesperson for Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who...
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