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Veterans health care completely broken, Walter Reed scandal called tip of iceberg
March 2, 2007WASHINGTON — Army Lt. Brady Van Engelen barely survived a sniper bullet that shattered his skull while he was patrolling outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad in April 2004. But, he told the World, the medical...
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Kennedy challenges Smithfield, Homeland Security
February 23, 2007The firing of workers trying to unionize at the Smithfield meat packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., has prompted Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security. The senator has urged...
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Still an open wound
February 23, 2007In late January, a Mississippi man was arrested for a 1965 murder. James Seale, now 71, was arrested on kidnapping charges related to killing two Black teenagers, who were tied to trees, whipped and drowned. Seale’s...
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LETTERS
February 23, 2007We want to hear from you! By e-mail: pww @ pww.org Subject: Letter to Editor Or by mail: People’s Weekly World Letter to Editor 3339 S. Halsted St. Chicago IL 60608 Letters should be limited to...
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Yales hospital: Poster child for union-busting
February 23, 2007NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is 650 miles from the notorious anti-worker Smithfield Foods livestock processing factory in Tar Heel, N.C. On Smithfield’s killing floors and in New Haven’s healing wards, the workers...
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