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  • Letters – June 14, 2008

    Letters – June 14, 2008

    June 14, 2008

    Something smells Word has it that Sen. John McCain is receiving $59,000 a year in benefits from the Veterans Administration for a 100 percent disability. Something just doesn’t smell right. Either he is 100 percent disabled...

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  • Reality check needed

    Reality check needed

    June 14, 2008

    After 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

    Licking Big Oils boots

    June 14, 2008

    Senate 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

    UN backs Puerto Ricos right to self determination

    June 14, 2008

    The 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

    Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects need a miracle

    June 14, 2008 By Susan Webb

    Palestinian 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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