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Bush budget proposal: Feed the Pentagon, starve the people
February 8, 2008President Bush proposed a record $3.1 trillion budget Feb. 4 that hands a whopping $515 billion to the military and slashes health care for seniors and other human needs programs. Opposition is boiling over in Congress,...
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World notes: Feb. 9, 2008
February 8, 2008Guatemala: Labor mobilizes for democratic rights Joined by regional unions, the International Trade Union Confederation organized an international conference Jan. 29-31 in Guatemala aimed at pressuring Guatemala’s government to end impunity for murderous attacks against trade...
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Belligerents and terrorists are different
February 6, 2008Commentary A 60-year sentence handed down Jan. 28 to Ricardo Palmera, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), by a U.S. judge demonstrates abuse of the terrorist designation. In January 2004, the CIA...
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German elections: the left breaks through
February 6, 2008The German elections on Sunday, like so many Hollywood films, were full of suspense until the last minute. Was there also a happy ending? To use the handy German word combination for Ja and Nein –...
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Collective punishment
February 1, 2008The blockaded and barricaded residents of Gaza performed a dramatic mass act of peaceful civil disobedience last week.
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