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Using religion to mask a conservative agenda
October 5, 2007Book Review Toxic Faith: Liberal Cure By Daniel C. Bruch and Thomas W. Strieter Xlibris Corporation, 2006 Softcover, 152 pp., $20.99 Daniel C. Bruch and Thomas W. Strieter are retired Christian pastors who have spent their...
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New allies in health care fight
October 5, 2007Our nation’s health care crisis is in the public eye, and while Democratic presidential candidates, with the exception of Dennis Kucinich, are trying to appropriate the language of universal health care to win support for plans...
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Veterans group seeks mandatory VA funding
October 5, 2007CHICAGO — If you thought every woman and man that served in the U.S. military and honorably discharged was guaranteed health care as a veteran, you would be wrong. Funding shortages still limit the extent and...
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WORLD NOTES: Oct. 6
October 5, 2007Egypt: Textile workers strike When 27,000 Egyptian textile workers struck the state-owned Misr textile corporation on Sept. 23, about 7,000 workers occupied a factory in el-Mahalla el-Kubra in the Nile Delta. Five independent union leaders spent...
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Haiti: repression drops, but not poverty
October 5, 2007VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While the people of Haiti have experienced an improvement in the country’s political atmosphere, their economic situation continues to deteriorate, said Roger Annis, a representative of the Canada-Haiti Action Network. Annis visited...
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