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  • Obama, race and the future of U.S. politics

    Obama, race and the future of U.S. politics

    February 24, 2009

    Barack Obama’s victory is indeed an historic breakthrough for U.S. politics. In a country that enforced a system of legalized racism until just 40 years ago, and that was founded on white supremacy, black slavery and...

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  • Passing EFCA is single most important thing for worker safety

    Passing EFCA is single most important thing for worker safety

    February 24, 2009 By Denis Hughes

    The first and foremost thing workers can do to protect their safety and health is to join a union. Without a union to protect them, rights to safe and healthful working conditions are a legal abstraction.

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  • Stanford: Biggest Texas scandal since Enron

    Stanford: Biggest Texas scandal since Enron

    February 24, 2009

    HOUSTON – With typical Texas flamboyance, Sir Robert Allen Stanford built a financial empire which stretched across Texas, through Mexico, the Caribbean islands and into South America. He was charged by the SEC on Feb. 17...

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  • GOP senator says U.S. must rethink Cuba ban

    GOP senator says U.S. must rethink Cuba ban

    February 24, 2009

    WASHINGTON -(Associated Press) The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the...

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  • So Long, Salamanders

    So Long, Salamanders

    February 24, 2009 By Stephen Leahy

    SAN DIEGO, (Tierramérica) - Mesoamerica's salamanders appear to be joining the global decline in amphibian species, like frogs, adding to the evidence of ecological change around the planet.

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