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  • Bush to privatize military health staff

    Bush to privatize military health staff

    September 10, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Bush’s Pentagon has announced a new privatization scheme for military physicians and other health personnel that goes along with its Iraq strategy of having private contractors perform heretofore routine U.S. military functions.

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  • N. Calif. PWW banquet to celebrate labor, peace and solidarity

    N. Calif. PWW banquet to celebrate labor, peace and solidarity

    September 10, 2004

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Labor, peace and solidarity organizations and their leaders from around the Greater Bay Area will headline this year’s “all new” Beat-Back-Bush People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet on Friday evening, Oct 8. Among them:...

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  • Airline crews should have been warned

    Airline crews should have been warned

    September 10, 2004

    On Sept. 10, 2001, I was a United Airlines flight attendant, working a night flight from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. My co-workers and I drank coffee and watched the stars pass by our windows, remarking...

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  • Oil rivalry, strife afflict the Caucasus

    Oil rivalry, strife afflict the Caucasus

    September 10, 2004 By David Eisenhower

    Breakaway autonomous regions in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan are creating a headache for the Bush administration’s geopolitical planners.

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  • Black lawmakers urge legalizing immigrants

    Black lawmakers urge legalizing immigrants

    September 10, 2004

    If you listen to President George Bush, the only way Mexicans can avoid the illegal and sometimes deadly trip across the U.S. border is to come as guest workers — temporary contract laborers for U.S. industry...

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