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  • Bailout goes to Wall Street, not Main Street

    Bailout goes to Wall Street, not Main Street

    March 21, 2008

    Most Americans are having no trouble figuring out whether or not we are in a recession. Certainly not the 100,000 workers tossed onto the jobless pile in January and February, or the millions living an economic...

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  • World notes: March 22, 2008

    World notes: March 22, 2008

    March 21, 2008

    Cuba: Literacy milestone reached Speaking to reporters, Cuban Minister of Education Luis Ignacio Gomez indicated that as of March 13 three million people worldwide have learned to read and write through the Cuban method of literacy...

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  • Coalition launches drive to oust GOP

    Coalition launches drive to oust GOP

    March 21, 2008

    WASHINGTON — Thousands at the “Take Back America” conference here March 17-19 cheered as speakers called for a concerted get-out-the-vote drive to end 30 years of right-wing Republican dominance and open the way for progressive change....

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  • Iraq vet ‘winter soldiers’ appeal for end to war

    Iraq vet ‘winter soldiers’ appeal for end to war

    March 21, 2008

    Soldier Camilo Mejia, who spent nine months in prison for refusing to return to Iraq combat, appealed for an outpouring of resistance to the Iraq war as it enters its sixth year with no end in...

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  • Pennsylvania heats up for primary

    Pennsylvania heats up for primary

    March 21, 2008

    PHILADELPHIA — The 2008 presidential primary campaign heated up this week in Pennsylvania’s two largest cities, where both Democratic candidates plan to do well in the April 22 vote. There are 158 delegates at stake and...

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