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Social Security to be solvent for 50 years

June 18, 2004

The Social Security shortfall is half the size of the rise in defense spending since 2000. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of Social Security shows the program to be considerably stronger than has been indicated...

Californias SB2: A stepping stone to health care reform

June 18, 2004

As attention is focused on the June 19 Bridges for Health Care events in California, prominently represented will be the campaign to save SB2 – the California Senate bill passed last fall and signed by then-Gov....

International notes

June 18, 2004

Haiti: Caricom insists on investigation Because the Caribbean Community (Caricom) insisted on it, the Organization of American States (OAS) passed a resolution last week that opens the door to an OAS investigation of the circumstances surrounding...

Nicaraguan priest: On Reagans bitter legacy

June 18, 2004

While most of the U.S. mass media have been presenting a rosy, revisionist history of the life of former President Ronald Reagan, who died on June 5, others have presented a more realistic view of Reagan...

Protests continue against Israeli wall

June 18, 2004

The Israeli government’s construction of an apartheid-like wall along the West Bank continues to meet with stiff resistance in many Palestinian towns and villages and from Jewish Israeli peace activists. Hundreds of Palestinians from the northern...