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Workers drown in pink slip flood
March 15, 2008Only a week after releasing the most dismal consumer spending figures in eight years, the government said, March 7, that 63,000 workers lost their jobs in February — another sure sign that the economy is in...
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Worldnotes – March 15, 2008
March 15, 2008Russia: Billionaires multiply In one year Russia moved from 53 billionaires to 87, four of them among the world’s wealthiest 20 individuals. A Forbes editor enthused that “the new No. 2 country behind the U.S,” (which...
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Union Condemns Latest Killing of Journalist in Baghdad
March 14, 2008The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the killing of Iraqi media executive, Qassem Abdul Hussein al-Eqabi, who was shot in Baghdad earlier today, and called on the government to improve the safety of media...
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Central American solidarity activists dispute DOJ order
March 12, 2008WASHINGTON-- The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), illegally targeted in the 1980’s by the largest FBI Internal Security investigation of the Reagan era, has in recent months again received threatening communications...
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McCain flip flops on Social Security
March 12, 2008Vows to revive privatization Angry retirees descended on Social Security Administration offices in downtown Phoenix Mar. 7 holding placards that read, “Tell McCain ‘hands off Social Security.’” They were protesting Republican Sen. John McCain’s recent statements...
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