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Cuts for veterans are shameful and hypocritical

November 7, 2003

Opinion I am the national president of Veterans For Peace, an organization made up of men and women veterans of all eras dedicated to the cause of world peace and social justice. I am also a...

Letters

November 7, 2003

Candidates support clemency? I feel it is an important stipulation for potential endorsers to ask whether the presidential candidate supports clemency for American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. So far, Carol Moseley Braun, former senator from...

Editorials

November 7, 2003

Fuzzy economics George W. Bush’s claim that his tax cuts to the super-rich are what’s behind the “spectacular” economic growth of 7.2 percent from July-September is fuzzy economics. The fact is there are two ways to...

Blame profits, not workers, for high health costs

November 7, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The issue of corporate greed in health care is beginning to make its way into the mass media, thanks in good part to the blatant price-gouging of the pharmaceutical companies.

Pratt & Whitney workers fight to save jobs

November 7, 2003

Workers’ correspondence International Association of Machinists sisters and brothers at the profitable United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney plant in Connecticut are fighting hard for their jobs. On Oct. 3, materials workers at Pratt voted “no”...