Opinion
Oil companies threaten America
July 26, 2008The specter of runaway inflation haunts our country. It is already beginning to create havoc and wreak devastation to our national economy. It is deepening and spreading hunger to new millions. It has caused the loss...
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Free-marketeers have their history wrong
July 26, 2008As he refines his economic message on the campaign trail this summer, Republican John McCain has made it clear that, previous positions notwithstanding, he has now embraced the Republican economic orthodoxy: eliminate regulation, cut taxes on...
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EDITORIAL: A Change America platform
July 26, 2008Under the title “Listening to America,” the Obama campaign issued an open invitation to voters to organize meetings in their homes, union halls, churches and schools this month to discuss what planks should be added to...
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EDITORIAL: Hungry for change
July 18, 2008Karl Marx once noted, “The rate of profit is the motive power of capitalist production. Things are produced only as long as they can be produced with a profit.” Does this apply to food? Every day...
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EDITORIAL: A welcome pledge
July 18, 2008After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States had the chance to do something good and right, Barack Obama said in a major Iraq policy speech this week. But a failure of leadership and ideas...
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