U.S.
Wall Street loves Bush budget
February 27, 2004Under the Bush administration, the federal debt has reached record dollar amounts. The latest budget, which claims to cut the deficit in half in five years, is a work of fiction – under the Bush program,...
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Bush sneaks in another extremist judge
February 27, 2004Reaction to George W. Bush’s Feb. 20 back-door appointment of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor as a U.S. appeals court judge was swift and scathing. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the senior members of the...
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National Clips
February 27, 2004NASHVILLE, Tenn.: State defies drug companies, Bush Tennessee joins a host of Midwest and New England cities and states openly defying not only the huge drug corporations but also the Bush administration. Gov. Phil Bredesen, a...
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Kucinich: the most unreported story of 2004
February 26, 2004WASHINGTON – The most underreported story of the 2004 election is the never-give-up, never-give-in campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for president. With considerable grassroots support, the Ohio lawmaker has carried his message of world peace,...
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Ishmael Flory, fighter for equality, 96
February 20, 2004Ishmael Flory, veteran trade union organizer, activist in the African American freedom movement, and a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Illinois, died Feb. 4 in Chicago following a long illness. He was 96. Flory...
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