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Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers

September 8, 2006 By Art Perlo

For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.

CIA spins spiders web vs. Cuba, Venezuela

September 8, 2006

U.S. intelligence head John Negroponte announced Aug. 18 the creation of a new Central Intelligence Agency mission to oversee intelligence operations in Venezuela and Cuba at the strategic level. J. Patrick Maher, a 32-year CIA veteran...

NATIONAL CLIPS

September 8, 2006

This week’s clips are a brief roundup of a few of the hundreds of Labor Day parades, marches and picnics around the country.DALLAS: Labor breakfast, immigrant rights marchLabor Day in Dallas began with the annual AFL-CIO...

Bush fear campaign called shameful as Democrats demand troop pullout starting this year

September 8, 2006 By Susan Webb

“Cheap spin, fear-mongering and deliberate mischaracterization of his critics.” “Shameful tactic.” “Close to delusional.” These were editorial reactions of newspapers across the “heartland” last week as President Bush and other administration officials launched a political offensive.

Pilgrimage for justice: Immigrant rights activists march to House Speakers doorstep

September 8, 2006

BATAVIA, Ill. — Bearing American flags and pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary while marching to the beat of Korean drummers, some 400 immigrant workers, their families and supporters walked 50 miles from Chicago to...