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July 18, 2003Death chamber at Guantanamo? The Bush administration’s plan to haul six detainees at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay before a secret U.S. military tribunal, possibly to execute them, should alarm every person who prizes democracy,...
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World conference hits war, capitalist crisis
July 18, 2003Communist & Workers’ parties meet in Athens ATHENS, Greece – Meeting in the wake of the U.S. military invasion and occupation of Iraq, but bolstered by the unprecedented global peace upsurge that resisted the war, representatives...
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Injury, illness prevention now city policy
July 18, 2003On June 17, 2003, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted an historic principle of public health that should be an example for every municipality and for the nation itself. The term they used is “precautionary...
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Dont privatize care for the disabled
July 18, 2003News Analysis HARTFORD, Conn. – The outside thermometer said 90, but the temperature was more than sizzling last Thursday when the State Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) refused to allow 20 family members of group home...
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Vietnams socialist market economy
July 18, 2003Vietnam shifted to a socialist market economy in 1986 after failing to meet economic output targets of its five-year plans. Similar problems began to appear in the mid-1970s in the USSR and European socialist countries. Under...
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