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A marchers journal
September 9, 2006The Immigrant Worker Justice Walk, a 50-mile, four-day mobilization for immigrant rights, marched through Chicagoland to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office in Batavia, Ill., on a Labor Day weekend that served to emphasize the difficulties the...
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Conservatives without Conscience: An insider views the GOPs ominous politics
September 8, 2006BOOK REVIEW Conservatives without Conscience By John W. Dean Penguin Books, 2006 Hardcover, 246 pp., $26.95 In recent years our society has witnessed the rise of a right-wing authoritarian political movement hiding behind a self-described “conservative”...
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Chavez goes on the road, aims for multipolar world
September 8, 2006Addressing a rally in Caracas on Sept. 1, the day he returned from a trip to China, Malaysia, Syria and Angola, President Hugo Chavez, campaigning for re-election, posed Venezuela’s role in the world as crucial to...
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Ohio grandma rages at corporate tax hypocrisy
September 8, 2006School boards usually lack the power to protect their tax base from corporate giveaways A tiny grandmother from Toledo named Charlotte Cuno stood on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court last March, enraged by questions...
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Oil and defense CEOs hit the jackpot
September 8, 2006The $3 a gallon shelled out by customers at the pump has lined the pockets of top energy executives, according to a report released Aug. 29 by United for a Fair Economy and the Institute for...
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