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Review: Dean’s prescription for real health care reform
July 28, 2009Book Review Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform By Howard Dean, with Igor Volsky and Faiz Shakir Chelsea Green Publishing Company 132 pp., $12.95 To be sure, the American people are feeling a bit confused...
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Castro on July 26: The land is waiting for us
July 27, 2009Original source:Cuban President Raul Castro has said that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no-one to blame but itself for poor farm production. In a speech marking Revolution...
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The Henry Louis Gates Jr Arrest: ‘Uppity’ in 2009
July 24, 2009The arrest of famed historian Henry Louis Gates by the Cambridge, Massachusetts police raises some important questions about what this country has been losing in terms of civil liberties and due process. Although I have no...
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Port Chicago disaster remembered
July 24, 2009PORT CHICAGO, Calif. ― In what would become a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle, 320 men died July 17, 1944 in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy...
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Done crying, today shell even smile minimum wage & one moms story
July 24, 2009MERIDEN, Kan. — Celeste Henderson is a living, breathing mom who is in the news today, but only as a statistic. She’s one of the millions of American low-wage workers directly affected by Friday’s hike in...
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