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Venezuelas ambassador responds to Speaker Pelosi on RCTV
June 5, 2007The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Madam Speaker Pelosi, I am writing in the opportunity to respond to your May 30 statement on Venezuela’s decision not to renew...
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Global summit grapples with mass extinctions
June 1, 2007UNITED NATIONS — “Something is going wrong,” said Ole Petenya Yusuf-Shani, a member of the Maasai indigenous community of Kenya. Yusuf-Shani was speaking at UN headquarters on May 22, International Biodiversity Day. He and others said...
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Mercenaries cast dark shadows on U.S. democracy
June 1, 2007BOOK REVIEW When years ago Consolidation Coal, Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Steel created their own private armies, including Pinkertons, to keep the word “profits” always followed by the verb “skyrocketing,” and to keep workers under...
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LETTERS
June 1, 2007Stop cuts to HIV/AIDS care I work as a massage therapist for clients with AIDS and HIV at the CORE Center, which is an outpatient clinic that is part of Cook County Hospital. I am paid...
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EDITORIAL: Taking back America
June 1, 2007The Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) will convene its sixth annual “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C., June 18. Every year for the past five years thousands of union members, peace, civil and human rights...
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