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This Jokers no joke
July 26, 2008Heath Ledger as the “Joker” in “The Dark Night” has many speculating he may win an Academy Award posthumously for the role. Ledger died last January of an accidental prescription drug overdose at age 28. The...
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LETTERS: JULY 26
July 26, 2008Struggle vs. supply and demand The global class struggle was unfortunately absent from the analysis of expensive oil in “Oil dreams” (PWW 7/5-11). The article also failed to mention monopolization of the oil industry, its ties...
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Fearing voter wrath, GOPers buck Bush on Medicare
July 26, 2008Sen. Edward Kennedy’s appearance in the Senate recently, in the midst of his personal battle against brain cancer, to break a Republican filibuster against a bill to save Medicare will go down in history. Days later,...
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Oil, independence, and gunboat diplomacy
July 26, 2008In Buenos Aires earlier this month, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Shannon rejected theories that the U.S. Fourth Fleet, assigned to watch over South America, had been reactivated for offensive purposes. So that means defense,...
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WORLD NOTES: July 26
July 26, 2008Ecuador: Reckoning for past crimes Ecuador’s government this month confiscated nearly 200 properties of the Isaías Group including three television stations, businesses and land. Alainet.org said the properties will be sold to reimburse depositors using banks...
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