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Torture in Iraq: The buck stops with Bush
May 14, 2004George W. Bush and his minions are toiling to contain worldwide outrage over the torture of hundreds of Iraqi detainees by U.S. occupation soldiers at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Slip-sliding to shift blame to a...
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National Clips
May 14, 2004TALLAHASSEE, Fla.: Vote stealers are at it again The infamous Florida Board of Elections, now an agency under control of President Bush’s brother Jeb, Florida’s governor, ordered 40,000 potential voters purged from the registration rolls, May...
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U.S. to reopen Till case
May 14, 2004WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department said May 10 it is reopening the investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose murder while visiting Mississippi was an early catalyst for the civil...
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Arizona workers gear up for 2004 elections
May 14, 2004PHOENIX – Thousands of trade union activists poured into the Wyndham Hotel in downtown Phoenix on May 6 to hear Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry speak and to launch the Arizona Labor 2004 Kickoff campaign...
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Coup foiled in Venezuela
May 14, 2004Another coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has failed. Eighty-eight Colombian paramilitaries were captured May 9 in Caracas while training for an assault on a military installation. According to Venezuela’s ambassador in Bogotá, those arrested...
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