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  • Where will we live?

    Where will we live?

    May 17, 2008

    Community groups take on housing crisisOAKLAND, Calif. — As she led dozens of neighbors, ACORN activists and journalists on a walking tour of the East Oakland working-class neighborhood where she has lived for nearly 40 years,...

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  • The Kurdish question and the fruits of imperialism

    The Kurdish question and the fruits of imperialism

    May 15, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

    An ongoing guerilla war is raging in Southeastern Turkey and Kurdish regions of U.S.-occupied Iraq. The war is led by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which since its inception in Turkey has fought for a socialist...

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  • American Axle workers keep up the fight

    American Axle workers keep up the fight

    May 15, 2008

    DETROIT -- No one at American Axle expected to be out for three months, but workers continue to keep the dozen or so gates of the sprawling American Axle complex in Detroit fully staffed. While there...

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  • Editorial: Israel’s 60th anniversary

    Editorial: Israel’s 60th anniversary

    May 15, 2008

    May 14 marked the 60th anniversary of the formation of the state of Israel. It has had a complex, troubled history, with many conflicting views about what happened and why. For the decades-old Jewish population in...

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  • Fourth Fleet threatens peace and democracy in Latin America

    Fourth Fleet threatens peace and democracy in Latin America

    May 14, 2008

    Latin American leaders have been critical of the Bush administration plan to reestablish the U.S. Fourth Fleet which will, according to a Department of Defense press release, operate “in the Caribbean, and Central and South America.”...

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