2009 – Page 64 – People's World

Veterans react to Iraq pullout plan: A war that should never have been fought

March 13, 2009

While they see President Obama’s 18-month timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq as a necessary first step to change, veterans’ organizations say Iraq and Afghanistan urgently need diplomacy and development, not lingering deployments or troop...

Jobs report worst since Great Depression

March 13, 2009

The United States is now facing levels of joblessness comparable to those of the Great Depression. Labor Department data released this month shows in February, employers eliminated 651,000 jobs, the third month in a row that...

Homeowner rip-offs spark scores of lawsuits

March 13, 2009

BOSTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Many of the biggest mortgage lenders in the U.S. have engaged in widespread, systematic schemes that ripped off hundreds of thousands of families seeking to buy a home, refinance or foreclose,...

UPDATE Citigroup, AIG, on taxpayer dole, lead charge vs. worker rights

March 12, 2009

WASHINGTON — Organized labor hit the ground running March 10, bringing hundreds of workers to the capital to visit their senators and representatives to urge passage of the Employee Free Choice Act on the day it...

World Notes: Palestine, China, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Cuba and global union report

March 11, 2009

Palestine: Unity gov’t talks recess Talks in Cairo among 14 Palestinian factions seeking to form a unified transitional government recessed March 14, leaving the Higher Committee made up of heads of the five working committees to...