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Letters: Nukes, Berenson, Travel to Cuba, free speech, J.H. Franklin
April 17, 2009Nuclear sense Finally! A president who lives in the real world. By extending the hand of friendship and mutual respect and sweeping away the Cold War tactics of arrogance, confrontation and peace through strength, Barak Obama...
Read moreSingle-payer health care could save $400 billion per year, advocates say
April 17, 2009CHICAGO – Health care activists rallied here to express their concern that the big hospital, insurance and pharmaceutical companies were “marginalizing” the single payer option in the discussion on health care reform currently before Congress. The...
Read moreWORLD NOTES: Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Russia, West Bank, Cuba
April 17, 2009Nigeria: Transnat’l plunder leaves loose ends The government last week denied responsibility for failing to identify bribe-takers, blaming the U.S. Attorney General instead, vanguardngr.com reported. Despite requests, facts are being withheld that entered into the trial...
Read morePeople’s Summit: End blockade of Cuba
April 17, 2009Port of Spain, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The People's Summit beginning here today will urge the US to end the over 50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. David Abdulah, head of the organizing committee,...
Read moreUnion Jane: The best thing women could do to counteract pay inequality might be to join a union
April 17, 2009Original source: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act justly received a lot of media attention in January, briefly refocusing our national attention on the gender discrepancies that still haunt our workplaces. But now that the issue...
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