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  • CWA and Indian unions take on call centers

    CWA and Indian unions take on call centers

    October 27, 2006

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — The burgeoning thousands of call center workers in India who serve U.S. and multinational companies, and who got jobs formerly handled by U.S. unionists, are tough to organize. They need new types of...

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  • U.S. blocks medical exchange with Cuba

    U.S. blocks medical exchange with Cuba

    October 21, 2006

    It is commonly believed that the U.S. blockade against Cuba, in force for over four decades, is limited to politics and economics. Cooperation for people’s health is allowed, right? Wrong. For the second year in a...

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  • Fighting to close the torture college

    Fighting to close the torture college

    October 13, 2006

    The School of the Americas (SOA) is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located in Fort Benning, Ga. It has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers since 1946. After the Pentagon was forced to...

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  • Bushs reckless, imperial foreign policy

    Bushs reckless, imperial foreign policy

    October 13, 2006

    A March 2006 Council on Foreign Relations task force report on Russia, co-chaired by Jack Kemp and John Edwards, recommended the United States adopt a Cold War approach toward Russia. According to the task force, Russian...

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  • U.S. blocks medical exchange with Cuba

    U.S. blocks medical exchange with Cuba

    October 3, 2006

    It is commonly believed that the U.S. blockade against Cuba, in force for over four decades, is limited to politics and economics. Cooperation for people's health is allowed, right? Wrong: For the second year in a...

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