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  • Reality TV producers need a reality check

    Reality TV producers need a reality check

    May 18, 2007

    Union busting is not new. Corporations with enough money and inclination have employed many dirty tactics to break a union organizing campaign. However, the tactics being waged against television writers fighting for benefits and membership in...

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  • Michael Moore draws govt wrath re Cuba trip

    Michael Moore draws govt wrath re Cuba trip

    May 18, 2007

    Michael Moore has joined the ranks of victims of U.S. trade and travel restrictions against Cuba. His organization reported that the filmmaker received an inquiry from the U.S. Treasury Department about a trip Moore took to...

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  • When the market god isnt worshipped

    When the market god isnt worshipped

    May 18, 2007

    The Republicans, the neocons, the fundamentalist right wing, all make a god of “the market.” The market is the be-all and end-all, the ultimate trump card. The market is the solution they propose for everything —...

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  • Faith-based emergency preparedness

    Faith-based emergency preparedness

    May 18, 2007

    With Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the Walter Reed hospital scandal — maybe you thought that the incompetence of the White House had bottomed out. But ... here comes another embarrassment bubbling to the surface. While the...

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  • There comes a time

    There comes a time

    May 18, 2007

    Before the ’06 elections, more than a few skeptical voices asked what substantial progress could be achieved through the peoples’ massive get-out-the-vote campaign. We had tried before and failed. Yet after the ballots were counted, even...

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