Analysis
EDITORIAL: Congressional elections matter
March 17, 2006Peace-loving, working-class, progressive and left-minded people are commemorating the third anniversary of an illegal, immoral war this weekend. While mourning the thousands of dead and war-wounded Americans and Iraqis and worrying about attacks on democratic rights,...
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Equality, or not: Threat of two-tier workforce is fault line of U.S. immigration policies
March 17, 2006Equality has become an unmentionable word in Congress. It doesn’t come even once in the 300-page omnibus immigration bill introduced last week by Senator Arlen Specter, nor in any of the others Congress is considering. They...
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North Carolina confronts shameful history
March 17, 2006WILMINGTON, N.C. — An eager crowd squeezed into the auditorium of the Cape Fear Museum Feb. 28 to discuss what happened here 108 years ago. They were enthusiastic about the chance to discuss events that until...
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Time for a new civil rights revolution
March 17, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They have lied and spied on the American people. We have been in Iraq for three years, it’s time we get out now,” said Jarvis Tyner, guest speaker at the 32nd annual...
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U.S. readying military attack on Iran
March 10, 2006News Analysis Evidence is mounting that the Bush administration is preparing a major military attack on Islamic Republic of Iran. In January investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported that top military and intelligence officials told him, “the...
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