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EDITORIAL: Modern day poll tax
October 13, 2006Last month, before congressional Republicans headed home to try to hold onto their seats, the GOP leadership pushed through the House the hypocritically labeled “Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006,” HR 4844. Sponsored by right-wing Illinois...
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EDITORIAL: 600,000-plus Iraqis dead
October 13, 2006A just-released report by U.S. and Iraqi public health researchers estimates that 600,000 Iraqi civilians have died in violence there since President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade in March 2003. In the study,...
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Fighting to close the torture college
October 13, 2006The School of the Americas (SOA) is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located in Fort Benning, Ga. It has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers since 1946. After the Pentagon was forced to...
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U.S. health care falls short
October 13, 2006How does U.S. health care measure up? The N.Y.-based Commonwealth Fund has released a report entitled “A National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance.” The United States ranks 15th out of 19 countries in deaths of...
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CWA VP speaks on Iraq war
October 13, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — There are many parallels between the Vietnam War and the present Iraq war, says a Communications Workers vice president who helped lead the AFL-CIO into its anti-Iraq war stand last year. Speaking at...
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