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The housing bubble
January 20, 2006The “Wal-Mart, low-wage, limited-benefit” stage of the U.S. economy is built on a foundation of unsustainable increases in debt: household debt, corporate debt, and government debt. The January 2001 tax cuts directed toward the rich, combined...
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Venezuela lends a hand in Maine
January 20, 2006“This is not about politics. This is about improving the lives of poor people. This is about people helping people.” That was Felix Rodriguez, CEO of Citgo Petroleum Corp., speaking in the small town of Windham,...
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Wheelchaired activists demand access rights
January 20, 2006SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Street theater drew the attention of passers-by to a demonstration Jan. 13 by 45 wheelchaired people and their supporters protesting the launching of an initiative that would deny access rights to Californians with...
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World Notes
January 20, 2006India: Activists protest toxic waste ship The decommissioned French aircraft carrier “Clemenceau,” which saw duty during the 1991 Gulf War, is on its way to the Alang scrap yard in Gujarat, India, where workers are to...
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McCarthyism resurrected in Europe
January 20, 2006On Jan. 24-27 the Council of Europe will vote on a resolution demanding international condemnation of communism and statements of renunciation from all communist parties in European Union member states “condemning the crimes committed by totalitarian...
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