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Wars health impact vast, panel says

March 3, 2006

WASHINGTON (PAI) — The U.S. health impact of the war in Iraq is extensive, sometimes subtle and extends beyond U.S. troops to their families and the public at large, a five-member panel warned a forum of...

Wal-Mart and Henry Ford

March 3, 2006 By Art Perlo

Wal-Mart is known for the huge profits it has accumulated for the Walton family and its Wall Street backers. It is also known for low pay and savage opposition to workers’ rights.

THISWEEKINLABOR

March 3, 2006

Bridgestone/Firestone blocks Steelworker solidarity Local management of a Bridgestone Firestone plant in LaVergne, Tenn., blocked the local union from making a plant gate collection to help struggling rubber farm workers in Liberia. United Steelworkers Local 1055,...

WORLDNOTES

March 3, 2006

Iraq: Healing the past and present The Iraqi Mobile Communist Clinic brought its medical expertise to the people in a special way on Communist Martyr Day, Feb. 14. The clinic set up shop in Baghdad at...

Voices rising worldwide: Free the Cuban 5

March 3, 2006 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

On Feb. 14 attorneys in the case of the Cuban Five took judges’ questions for an hour before the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Meanwhile demonstrations of support for Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino,...