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Editorials

October 31, 2003

Bush, LBJ and Nixon Despite retooled White House public relations efforts to sell the disastrous Iraq war and occupation, George W. Bush is looking more and more like the proverbial used-car salesman who covers up a...

History-makers reflect on Salt of the Earth: Even more relevant now

October 31, 2003

Anita and Lorenzo Torrez were a young married couple thrown into the midst of the Empire Zinc strike in Hanover, N.M., in 1950. They were radicalized in the course of the strike and became members of...

Oh, Canada! Wherefore art thy drugs so cheap?

October 31, 2003

A toe-to-toe “people versus profits” slugging match is under way over the issue of importing prescription drugs from Canada. On the side of profit protection are the giant pharmaceutical companies and the Bush administration. Arrayed against...

Steelworkers support college athletes

October 31, 2003

“Professional athletes had to fight for the rights we now have. We’ll stand by the collegiate athletes in their struggle for justice until they win,” Daylon McCutcheon, defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, told a recent...

GOP to challenge Black voters in Louisville

October 31, 2003

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Republican Party has appointed voter challengers to work election day in the 59 precincts in Louisville where African Americans are concentrated. The GOP-assigned challengers will work at polls in west and central...