News
The Office of Tax Propaganda
August 15, 2003The honesty-impaired Bush administration does not limit its deception to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When it comes to taxes, the spin starts when they call their program the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Act...
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International notes
August 15, 2003Iraq: Protest of fuel & power shortages Protests continued early this week in Basra, the country’s largest city, and the surrounding area against prolonged shortages of electricity and gasoline that are making life miserable in the...
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Bushs Senegal visit uncensored
August 15, 2003The following is an abridged e-mail sent by a Senegalese woman and health activist to friends. It gives an uncensored view of George W. Bush’s Africa visit. DAKAR, Senegal – [Bush’s] visit has been such an...
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National Clips
August 15, 2003ANNISTON, Ala.:‘Stop burning of chemical weapons’ Despite years of protests and court action by residents, the U.S. Army began burning chemical weapons along one of the most densely populated sections of the Atlanta to Birmingham corridor...
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AFL-CIO 2004 election plans
August 15, 2003CHICAGO – The City of Big Shoulders was an appropriate place for the mid-year AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting Aug. 5-6. Here organized labor, deliberately and with little fanfare, began the heavy lifting of coordinating and mobilizing...
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