Analysis
To help everyone, lift the blockade
September 20, 2008The world has watched with enormous admiration as storm-battered Cuba pulls itself together after the unprecedented devastation of Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Despite immense losses to agriculture, industry, housing and infrastructure, loss of life was...
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EDITORIAL: Bail out Main Street
September 20, 2008The largest crisis in U.S. financial history shook the foundations of Wall Street this week. The aftershocks of the earthquake that toppled the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers investment bank, Merrill Lynch and the AIG insurance giant —...
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Taxation and you: Obama vs. McCain
September 17, 2008The numbers are finally in! John McCain’s Double Talk Express has been hitting Barack Obama hard at every opportunity spreading all kinds of misinformation about his tax plan. According to McCain, Obama’s tax plan will mean...
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Unity the only road to victory
September 17, 2008Recently, at political events I attended, I came in contact with supporters of Ralph Nader and Green candidates. They held forth on how those candidates were “much better than Obama” because they took “much better positions.”...
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The union and I why labor unions are good for labor
September 13, 2008Workers’ Correspondence I arrived at the University of North Florida (UNF) in the fall of 1979 as an untenured faculty member with two contractual guarantees. The first was the bargaining agreement between the faculty union and...
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