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  • What’s wrong with free trade?

    What’s wrong with free trade?

    December 21, 2001

    The uneven consequences of free trade founded upon neoliberal policy protecting the interests of Big Business hurts people from every walk of life. With government complicity, supply side economics, gunboat diplomacy and tax breaks for the...

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  • Fighting terrorism without destroying the law

    Fighting terrorism without destroying the law

    December 21, 2001

    In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there has been a lot of attention paid to the Portland, Ore. Police Bureau’s response to a request by federal authorities to question 23 men of Middle...

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  • Bush proposes police state public health law

    Bush proposes police state public health law

    December 21, 2001 By Phil E. Benjamin

    How could anyone oppose a strong public health system – one with a mandate to protect everyone from such potential disasters such as smallpox or anthrax? Given the disastrous shape that the U.S. public health system...

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  • Dont invite the Marlboro man to dinner

    Dont invite the Marlboro man to dinner

    December 21, 2001

    As holiday shoppers scramble for last-minute gifts, the barrage of advertisements taking advantage of the season of giving is reaching its peak. The same rule of thumb that explains the sell-out of the must-have toy of...

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  • Non-citizen airport security workers to lose their jobs

    Non-citizen airport security workers to lose their jobs

    December 21, 2001

    Of about 28,000 people employed in airport security nationally, almost a fourth are non-citizens. But with the new airport security law passed by Congress, this could change radically, and all 7,000 could abruptly lose their jobs....

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