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Calls flood Congress: No cuts in food, Medicaid
October 21, 2005Human needs coalition fights GOP budget attack WASHINGTON — Constituents flooded Capitol Hill with angry messages this week protesting a House budget resolution that would slash food stamps, Medicaid and other human needs programs by $50...
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U.S. private contractors scheming to oust Chavez?
October 20, 2005News Analysis A report came over the Internet Oct. 15 with an intriguing headline: “Intelligence Report: U.S. ‘private military contractors’ already in country to ‘deal with’ Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.” It came from www.vheadline.com. Here is...
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15th Ibero-American Summit supports Cuba
October 19, 2005Nineteen Latin American nations, plus Spain, Portugal and Andorra, sent high-level representatives to Salamanca, Spain, Oct. 14-15. The occasion was the 15th Ibero-American Summit. Cuba figured significantly in the proceedings. Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque, head...
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How Black conservatives hurt their cause
October 15, 2005The following is a guest commentary from BlackCommentator.com reprinted here with the author’s permission. I just recently came across conservative commentator Star Parker’s January 18 article “The Credibility of Black Conservatism,” in Townhall.com, a conservative Web...
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CT AFL-CIO Convention Seeks Unity in Action
October 15, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, CT – Delegates to the Connecticut AFL-CIO convention here showed their commitment to unity in words, deeds and votes as they grappled with changes in the labor movement and sharpening attacks on...
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