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Reader commentMilitary families on Interstate 35

October 15, 2004

The Bush administration’s pretensions to represent anyone apart from its corporate cronies have never been further from reality. While Republican propagandists have toiled nonstop to dress Bush up as the clear presidential candidate for the military...

A perfect storm on pensions

October 15, 2004

In an earlier column on the crisis gripping state employee pension funds, I mistakenly gave some comfort to private sector workers by alluding to pension protections provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

Pages from workers lives

October 15, 2004

During the Depression in the 1930s, too many people in the United States died of hunger. Millions of families were saved from this fate by getting jobs with the Works Project Administration (WPA). These were public...

International notes

October 15, 2004

Spain: U.S. troops won’t march on holiday Spain’s Defense Minister Jose Bono said last week that U.S. troops won’t march in Spain’s Oct. 12 national day parade this year. Instead, a French contingent will participate. Former...

A witness to history: Venezuelas vote

October 15, 2004

WASHINGTON — It started as a desire to witness history: Venezuela was on the eve of its first presidential recall referendum, and an epic struggle was being waged by the country’s workers and poor to defend...