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Knesset limits democratic rights
November 17, 2001TEL AVIV – Last week, the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, adopted two unprecedented racist resolutions. For the first time in the Israeli state’s history, the parliamentary immunity of an Arab Member of Knesset, Azmi Bishara of...
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Fast Track back from the dead
November 17, 2001SAN FRANCISCO – On Sept. 12, Fast Track came back from the dead. The proposal to give the Bush administration new trade negotiation authority, which had no chance of passage through Congress earlier this year, was...
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Immigrants built this country, strikers say
November 17, 2001HIGHWOOD, Ill. – A black coffin was placed beneath the speakers’ platform by pallbearers made up of striking Carousel Linen workers. The coffin signified scab labor, low wages and rotten working conditions, which strikers are determined...
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New count: possible Gore win
November 17, 2001An examination of all 175,010 uncounted ballots from Florida’s disputed 2000 presidential election revealed that Democrat Al Gore could have eked out a victory over George W. Bush, though he would have won by a razor-thin...
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Tobacco giant in drug scam
November 17, 2001LONDON, England – Anti-smoking campaigners yesterday condemned a tobacco giant for cashing in on cancer. Japan Tobacco, makers of Camel and Winston, have signed a deal with a biotech company for exclusive rights to market cancer...
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