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World notes: June 28, 2008
July 1, 2008Iraq: Refugees are silent scandal Amnesty International condemned “the international community” for neglecting 4.7 million Iraqi displaced persons, among them 2.7 million Iraqis unable to leave because of visa restrictions. An AI press release June 16...
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High crimes charge leveled at Bush, Cheney
July 1, 2008Efforts to impeach and even prosecute President Bush are gaining wider support as anger mounts over his administration’s disregard for the Constitution and what many see as its continuing gross negligence and criminal behavior. After Reps....
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Big lies from Big Oil
July 1, 2008Labor, environmentalists: Offshore drilling is just a profit scam The proposal by President Bush and Sen. John McCain to lift the federal ban on offshore oil drilling will do nothing to reduce gasoline prices but will...
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Workers Correspondence Candidates who value families will win in November
June 24, 2008The candidates who demonstrate to voters that they value families will win in the November elections. That’s quite a reversal from the 1980s, when the conservative agenda began to be packaged as “family values.” Until the...
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Contradictory China
June 24, 2008Almost everything you’ve heard about China is true — at least, that’s my impression from a short week-and-a-half visit to Beijing at the end of May. The scale of everything in China is hard for anyone...
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