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  • Challenging the Christian right in rural America

    Challenging the Christian right in rural America

    February 18, 2005

    OPINION Polls from the recent presidential election showed that many working-class voters support Bush’s Christian right “values agenda.” Why? From 1994 until 2002, I worked as a pastor at various Lutheran congregations in rural Iowa, and...

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  • China defends Wal-Mart workers

    China defends Wal-Mart workers

    February 18, 2005

    OPINION Just as George W. Bush and the Republicans — who worship at the altar of corporate greed, gleeful at deepening poverty for working families — were basking in the glow of Bush’s re-election, the Chinese...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    February 18, 2005

    Take heed of Pauling Linus Pauling, Nobel Peace Prize winner and peace activist, wrote in his book “No More War”: “Man has developed admirable principles of morality, which in large part govern the actions of individual...

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  • EDITORIALS

    EDITORIALS

    February 18, 2005

    Who killed Rafik Hariri? The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was a heinous crime not only because the murder was morally reprehensible. It was also heinous because, predictibly, it gave the Bush administration...

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  • Black Political Struggles in the Rural South

    Black Political Struggles in the Rural South

    February 18, 2005

    Book Review If readers of the People’s Weekly World are looking for a book that explores the role of the African American people in our nation’s history, they should look no further than Stephen Hahn’s “A...

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