Analysis
HR 676 on election agenda
June 16, 2006“The question isn’t whether we can afford to have universal, single-payer health care; the question is, can we afford not to?” reads the first resolution passed by the United Auto Workers convention this week. The nation’s...
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Guantanamo disgrace
June 16, 2006“No question,” President Bush said June 14, “Guantanamo sends, you know, a signal to some of our friends — provides an excuse, for example, to say, ‘The United States is not upholding the values that they’re...
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Puerto Ricos crisis highlights its colonial status
June 16, 2006As politicians wrangle over an overhaul of the tax system in Puerto Rico in order to avoid a budget crisis similar to the one that closed down the country’s schools and many government services for two...
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A communist view: Where is the leverage for U.S. workers in the fight with Delphi and GM?
June 9, 2006Labor’s potential strength is mighty, greater than any other social force on earth, because of what workers produce worldwide and because labor represents the interests of the overwhelming majority of humanity. The current attacks on labor...
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Jefferson case has earmarks of a Rove operation. News Analysis
June 2, 2006WASHINGTON — The ultra-right is hopping mad that House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) joined with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a sharp protest to President George W. Bush for the FBI’s raid on the Capitol...
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