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  • Chryslers signing bonus: pink slip for workers

    Chryslers signing bonus: pink slip for workers

    November 9, 2007

    Rank-and-file roiled by job and shift cuts as tentative deal is reached with Ford Less than a week after Chrysler workers barely approved a concessionary contract, the company’s Nov. 1 announcement that it will slash 10,000...

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  • Is GOP scheming to steal another election?

    Is GOP scheming to steal another election?

    November 9, 2007

    Just weeks ago, a proposed ballot initiative by far-right Republicans with links to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani seemed dead, after efforts to put it on California’s June primary ballot imploded amid secretive financial maneuvering by its...

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  • B.J. Mangaoang, longtime Communist leader, 92

    B.J. Mangaoang, longtime Communist leader, 92

    November 2, 2007

    B.J. Mangaoang, a longtime leader of the Communist Party of Washington state, died Oct. 20 at the age of 92. B.J. was born Baba Jean Sears in a homestead house in Bellevue, Wash., in 1915. She...

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  • The inhumanity of partial truth

    The inhumanity of partial truth

    November 2, 2007

    There is a lot of truth to go around in this world. When you have a world of complexity, you also have, and need, many ways of looking at and understanding it. The problem comes when...

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  • The fires and the media beast

    The fires and the media beast

    November 2, 2007

    As the smoke and ash settle out here in San Diego, a few things have become evident about the news in this age of disaster capitalism. One is the class nature of the corporate media beast....

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