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Peace activists say Obama’s nuclear policy a good start
April 7, 2010President Obama introduced a new nuclear weapons policy Tuesday with the aim of reducing nuclear weapons and a promise that America would no longer build them.
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Satan, child abuse and the pope: an Irish view
April 7, 2010To say that the revelations concerning child abuse in the Catholic Church has rocked it to its very foundations would be an understatement.
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Iraq elections: a tale of big money and ugly politics
April 7, 2010Many Iraqis hoped the March elections would advance a united national consensus to build a sovereign democratic Iraq, free of foreign occupation, but it appears that struggle has a ways to go.
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Marchers demand bailout for Main St.
April 7, 2010"They got bailed out, we got sold out!" was the chant as over 150 trade unionists and community allies marched through downtown Oakland April 5, pausing at banks along the route to let their message soak...
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Federal panel grills Greenspan, Citigroup on predatory lending
April 7, 2010The nation's subprime crisis will be in the news from Wednesday to Friday this week as the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins a new round of hearings.
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