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  • Labor Update

    Labor Update

    May 20, 2005

    Support grows for health care bill Steelworkers Local 1375 in Warren, Ohio, and International Association of Machinists Local 794 in Albuquerque, N.M., have joined the list of labor organizations calling for the passage of HR 676,...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    May 20, 2005

    Haiti: Concern for Yvon Neptune The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has expressed grave concern over the health of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, jailed without charge since last June, the Haitian news agency AHP...

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  • Venezuela and Cuba build trade pact

    Venezuela and Cuba build trade pact

    May 20, 2005

    As the Bush administration bullies countries into signing “free trade” agreements — huge profit makers for corporations at the expense of all workers — Cuba and Venezuela signed a massive package of agreements that seek to...

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  • Move over CNN  Here comes Telesur

    Move over CNN Here comes Telesur

    May 20, 2005

    The Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez, along with the left-leaning governments of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, will be launching Televisora del Sur (Telesur), a continent-wide TV station, by late June or early July to counter...

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  • Voters lash out at Blair over Iraq war

    Voters lash out at Blair over Iraq war

    May 20, 2005

    LONDON — It wasn’t long ago that a visibly annoyed British Prime Minister Tony Blair called on people in the country to “move on” from the issue of the Iraq war. Unfortunately for him, the results...

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