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Oil dreams

The price of oil spiking at the same time credit is falling is one of capitalism’s most musical cacophonies!

Shades of Green: June 28, 2008

Candidates who value families will win in November

Workers’ Correspondence The candidates who demonstrate to voters that they value families will win in the November elections. That’s quite a reversal from the 1980s, when the conservative agenda began to be packaged as “family values.”...

EDITORIAL: FISA filibuster

The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved by a vote of 293-129 a compromise bill reauthorizing warrantless electronic spying on the American people under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). About 50 Democrats joined the...

EDITORIAL: Talk to Iran

Earlier this month, members of Congress joined a wide range of groups in a “Time to Talk to Iran” event on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers say they are being inundated by a “drumbeat of war” from “neo-con”-type...