Opinion
Editorial: Not this time
December 13, 2008For too many years now the American people have been pushed around by the nation’s corporations, the banks, the insurance companies and their right-wing backers in government. If the events of this past week, coming just...
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Letters December 13 -19, 2008
December 13, 2008Special election The situation in Illinois with Governor Rod Blagojevich is a perfect example of why governors should not have the right to appoint people to fill the terms of politicians who leave office. If Miss...
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Challenges and possibilities in the time of economic crisis
December 13, 2008Given the current situation, it is apparent that the Obama administration enters the White House with huge challenges. At the same time, no president in recent memory brings to the job so much popular good will,...
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Time to build a new mass movement for a peace economy
December 6, 2008It’s hard to overestimate the change Nov. 4 has brought in its wake. We have entered a new era, with a new political dynamic calling for new tactics to advance the agenda shaped in the course...
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EDITORIAL: Hope, change for Iraq and beyond
December 6, 2008In spite of himself, George W. Bush has been forced to start extricating the U.S. from the Iraq war nightmare, a process President-elect Obama has promised to complete. A total U.S. withdrawal from Iraq can mark...
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