2009
Pelosi comes out swinging for employee free choice
May 20, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out swinging at a gathering of 3000 trade unionists here yesterday with a passionate call for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Determined to rebuff right wingers...
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Minnesota Governor feels heat to certify Franken as Senator
May 20, 2009Special to the World ST. PAUL, MN—Motorists driving on I-94 past Snelling Ave. are confronted by a giant billboard with a smiling picture of Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the message, “What will Pawlenty choose: People of...
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Clean coal a contradiction in terms
May 19, 2009The coal industry and their army of lobbyists always made sure that enough palms were greased in Washington so that whatever rules and regulations were passed always favored them. To have friends in high places was...
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Movie Review: ‘Hunger’
May 15, 2009Hunger Directed by Steve McQueen 2008, 96 min. Before Belfast has awakened in Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” — which won a Golden Camera Award for best first feature at Cannes and a Gold Hugo at the Chicago...
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BOOK REVIEW The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
May 15, 2009BOOK REVIEW 'The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences' By John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff Monthly Review Press, 2009, 160 pagesThe economic collapse spreading through the world is being blamed on greedy American bankers who...
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