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  • Safety cuts put friendly skies at risk, United workers say

    Safety cuts put friendly skies at risk, United workers say

    May 18, 2007

    CHICAGO — Question: Who would order the captain of a 767 jet, loaded with passengers and crew, to take off with a split in one of its tires? Answer: Glenn Tilton, chairman and CEO of United...

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  • As 2008 approaches, Republicans fear Iraq war backlash

    As 2008 approaches, Republicans fear Iraq war backlash

    May 18, 2007

    By next fall President Bush “may find himself standing alone” on his Iraq war policy. That was the warning from Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, commenting on Bush’s White House meeting with 11 Republican House members,...

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  • Battle over legal rights of Guantanamo detainees continues

    Battle over legal rights of Guantanamo detainees continues

    May 11, 2007

    The tug of war over the due process rights of the 385 prisoners still detained by the Bush administration at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, goes on, in and out of Congress. On April 26, in the latest...

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  • Report: Canada abets torture in Afghanistan

    Report: Canada abets torture in Afghanistan

    May 11, 2007

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A diplomatic report revealing that the Canadian government has been aware that Afghan security forces have been torturing prisoners handed over to them by Canadian soldiers has caused outrage across the country....

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  • Marx hoy

    Marx hoy

    May 11, 2007

    En ocasión d el 189º aniversario de su natalicio, este 5 de mayo. Cada vez que en alguna parte del mundo brota un movimiento orientado por ideas socialistas, como el que estamos viviendo ahora en Venezuela...

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