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  • The way out of capitalist lying, cheating and stealing

    The way out of capitalist lying, cheating and stealing

    July 4, 2002

    The roll call of corporate fraud – from Enron to Tyco; from Adelphia to Dynegy – keeps lengthening, with the addition of WorldCom, accused of listing $3.9 billion as “investment” rather than as expenses for maintainence...

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  • COINTELPRO specter haunts Black America

    COINTELPRO specter haunts Black America

    July 4, 2002

    The announcement by the FBI that it was propagating new guidelines that would extend far-reaching powers to its agents to monitor the internet, snoop in mosques and keep an eye on people everywhere from the local...

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  • Surveilling students: Same old, same old

    Surveilling students: Same old, same old

    July 4, 2002

    As an undergraduate at American University, I had the surprise of finding that the campus administration had handed over information on me to the South African embassy (I was a South African citizen at that time)....

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  • Letters

    Letters

    July 4, 2002

    Billions for Star Wars I spent a considerable part of today watching the Senate “debate” the amount of funding for “missile defense” in fiscal year 2003. The Senate is close to approving a $393 billion Defense...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    July 4, 2002

    Make the polluters pay President Bush’s decision to cut funding for the cleanup of several toxic waste dumps is a severe blow to working-class communities across the country. And it is, in all likelihood, a sentence...

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