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  • Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors

    Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors

    July 26, 2002

    As efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez intensify, two facts are inescapable: the power elite in the United States has never been happy with democratically-elected Chávez, but it took the Bush administration, with its corporate...

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  • Bush plan to invade Iraq meets growing opposition

    Bush plan to invade Iraq meets growing opposition

    July 26, 2002

    George W. Bush’s plan for a preemptive attack on Iraq with as many as 250,000 American GIs is facing mounting opposition. There are warnings that it could be a long, bloody “war for oil,” in which...

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  • AFL-CIO steps up support 
for West Coast dockers

    AFL-CIO steps up support for West Coast dockers

    July 26, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    SAN FRANCISCO – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) just received a huge solidarity commitment from the national AFL-CIO as the West Coast dockers continue to face one of the most challenging contract negotiations in...

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  • The economic crisis

    The economic crisis

    July 26, 2002

    News Analysis The new disclosures of corporate corruption and the instability in the stock market are having an economic impact on the overall economy. The question is: will it trigger a major decline across the full...

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  • Rainbow/PUSH sets Sept. 13 march on D.C.

    Rainbow/PUSH sets Sept. 13 march on D.C.

    July 26, 2002

    CHICAGO – The Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at the 36th annual conference of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, announced the beginning of a new inter-generational Civil Rights Movement with its first major action a march on the Justice...

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