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Another fast track to the unemployment line?
February 9, 2007President Bush has asked Congress for approval of “fast track” authority. Fast track means that the president negotiates a trade agreement and Congress cannot make any changes in it; they can only vote it up or...
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Jury exonerates Seattle WTO protesters
February 9, 2007SEATTLE (PAI) — It took seven years, but 147 of the Seattle protesters against corporate-centered globalization finally won — in federal court. On Jan. 30, a federal district court jury ruled the city’s mass arrest of...
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WORLD NOTES
February 9, 2007South Africa: Business practices vs. human rights Speakers at a mid-January conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, organized by the Foundation for Human Rights, examined effects of business practices on human rights. Yasmin Sooka, the foundation’s director,...
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Many political prisoners still held in Haitis jails
February 9, 2007One year after taking office, Haitian President Rene Preval is inching closer to releasing all political prisoners, but he is not moving nearly fast enough for Pierre Antoine Lovinsky. “Under the pretext of not wanting to...
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Japans Communists defend peace constitution
February 9, 2007The Japanese Communist Party will keep the defense of Japan’s “peace constitution” one of its central tasks as it gears up for April’s elections to the Diet, the nation’s parliament. Currently, the constitution states, in Article...
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