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Letters

July 4, 2002

Billions for Star Wars I spent a considerable part of today watching the Senate “debate” the amount of funding for “missile defense” in fiscal year 2003. The Senate is close to approving a $393 billion Defense...

Editorials

July 4, 2002

Make the polluters pay President Bush’s decision to cut funding for the cleanup of several toxic waste dumps is a severe blow to working-class communities across the country. And it is, in all likelihood, a sentence...

Labor solidarity backs West Coast dockers

July 4, 2002

OAKLAND – Leaders of unions representing transport workers from around the world locked arms at a Solidarity Day rally here on June 27 in support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The ILWU is...

Letters

June 28, 2002

Cuba’s gift to Uruguay On June 15 you ran an “International Note” to the effect that Cuba had donated 1.2 million units of meningitis B vaccine to Uruguay. What you failed to note was that Cuba...

Editorials

June 28, 2002

The Court skirts the issue The Supreme Court ruled June 20 that it is unconstitutional to execute mentally deficient prisoners, mentally deficient being defined at scoring less than 70 on a standard IQ test. On June...