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The challenge of the Bush budget
April 22, 2005News Analysis George W. Bush’s proposed 2006 budget is actually the strategic plan for his second term. Read carefully, the budget reveals the real agenda of this administration, and helps clear away the usual rhetoric designed...
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World Notes
April 22, 2005Poland: Troops to come home from Iraq Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said last week that Poland’s 1,700 soldiers will come home from Iraq when the UN mandate for the stabilization mission ends at the close of...
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Cubans exercise grassroots democracy
April 22, 2005Millions of Cubans elected delegates to their nation’s 169 municipal assemblies on April 17. The elections came at the end of a two-month long process in which the people themselves — in the words of National...
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Canadians consider same-sex marriage bill
April 22, 2005VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Liberal government’s long-delayed introduction of a bill to the Canadian Parliament to allow same-sex marriage has unleashed a firestorm of debate. Right-wing forces have poured considerable resources into stopping Bill C-38...
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Palestinians protest Israeli jail conditions
April 22, 2005April 17 was widely observed across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as “Prisoners’ Day,” a day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are languishing in Israeli jails. Thousands of people took to the streets...
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