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Marchers respond to ‘fascist’ policy
June 2, 2009Original source: Left-wing activists have marched through Rome in solidarity with migrants, as ministers from the G8 countries concluded a meeting on migration, security and terrorism. Thousands of demonstrators, including many immigrants, waved banners denouncing the...
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Goodbye GM — a letter from Michael Moore
June 2, 2009I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been...
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WORLD NOTES Argentina, Egypt, China, Georgia, Afghanistan, Cuba
June 2, 2009Argentina: Worker-run plants continue As the country slipped into financial crisis in 2001, owners of the Zanon Ceramics factory in Neuquén Province fired all employees, holding back on pay and pensions. Workers there and in 200...
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Cuban Adjustment Act remains off the table
June 2, 2009The Obama administration recently proposed resuming semi-annual talks on Cuban migration to the United States. The State Department referred to “commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration” and to President Obama’s desire “to support the Cuban...
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Women’s group calls for govt. action on ‘domestic terrorists’
June 2, 2009The Justice and Homeland Security departments must prosecute yesterday’s murder of Dr. George Tiller as part of a network of “domestic terrorists and violent racketeers” in a “criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts...
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