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  • Political shadow of the farm bill

    Political shadow of the farm bill

    August 8, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

    As the new Farm Bill has been passed by Congress and is expected to be approved by President Bush, The Wall Street Journal is voicing its disapproval. It proclaims: “All that rooting, snooting noise you hear...

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  • Castro hails U.S. House vote to ease blockade

    Castro hails U.S. House vote to ease blockade

    August 2, 2002 By Susan Webb

    In his July 26 speech marking the 49th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, that launched the Cuban revolution, Cuban president Fidel Castro hailed the U.S. House of Representatives’ overwhelming approval of measures easing...

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  • Protests against the Gaza City bombing

    Protests against the Gaza City bombing

    August 2, 2002

    Now, a week after the Israeli Gaza City air-terror strike, after protests and deliberations, everybody in Israel agrees: the hurdling of a one-ton explosive bomb into the midst of a densely populated urban area with the...

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  • Good times never been so good

    Good times never been so good

    August 2, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

    First the steel industry, the dinosaurs, collapsed – 34 corporations in almost as many months. But that was no big deal – they were ancient history.

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  • Corporate crime and steelworkers

    Corporate crime and steelworkers

    August 2, 2002

    Back in the roaring 1960s, Bob Dylan moved from the Mesabi Iron Range in Northern Minnesota to New York City. In those days the Mesabi Range was the home of thousands of United Steelworkers of America...

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