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Reality check needed
June 14, 2008After the government announced June 6 that last month’s jump in the unemployment rate was the worst in more than 20 years, a few corporate mouthpieces admitted that the economy might have “stalled.” Their modest admission...
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Licking Big Oils boots
June 14, 2008Senate Republicans gave people a slap in the face June 10, voting to block a windfall profits tax on oil companies that are robbing us blind at the gasoline pump with $4.35 per gallon gasoline. Democrats...
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UN backs Puerto Ricos right to self determination
June 14, 2008The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization unanimously approved a resolution June 9 calling on the United States to allow the Puerto Rican people to exercise their right to self-determination and independence. The UN panel called...
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Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects need a miracle
June 14, 2008Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia told reporters this month he does not think an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached this year “unless there is a miracle.”
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Worldnotes – June 14, 2008
June 14, 2008Germany: The Left Party sets course “The wind of history is in our sails,” Oscar Lafontaine proclaimed as 500 delegates of the Left Party, Germany’s third largest political party which evolved from the Socialist Unity Party...
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