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Letters
July 2, 2004COs in Canada Here in Toronto there are several cases of U.S. soldiers pending before the refugee board applying for refugee status. A former Vietnam draft dodger now Canadian lawyer, Jeffrey House, is handling the cases....
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Editorials
July 2, 2004Stop Bush’s hidden draft The Pentagon plans to call up 5,600 retired or discharged soldiers, members of a group of 117,000 so-called “ready reserves.” This comes on top of the so-called “stop loss” policy, which has...
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Letters
June 25, 2004Shame at Abu Ghraib Over a thousand people have been released from the Abu Ghraib prison. If these prisoners were guilty, then why were they set free? If they were innocent, then why were they detained...
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Editorials
June 25, 2004Solidarity with federal workers About 1,000 American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh June 25-27 for a “Victory in ’04” conference to mobilize the union’s 600,000 members to defeat George W. Bush...
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Liar, liar
June 25, 2004In a devastating blow to George W. Bush’s most powerful rationale for the invasion of Iraq, the bipartisan September 11th commission found no link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks, and no evidence of collaboration...
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