National
Whats on – May 31, 2008
May 30, 2008Oakland, Calif. June 7, Sat., 10 a.m. – noon CPUSA Oakland/Berkeley club invites all to the Political Affairs Readers Group. This month discussing the article by Davis S. Pena entitled “Marx’s Capital and Sustainable Development,” in...
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Taking global poverty seriously
May 30, 2008Scatter-shot efforts, no matter how innovative, will not suffice to reverse the awful trends now evident around the world. New plagues — AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis and hospital-acquired “superbugs” of all sorts — sweep rapidly across vast...
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Letters – May 31, 2008
May 30, 2008Fascist mayor terrorizes Rome As of May, the new mayor of Rome pledges to incite the “immediate expulsion” of illegal immigrants in Rome. Many of these immigrants are the thousands of Roma (Gypsies) residing in 85...
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McCain and Hagee
May 30, 2008After months of refusing to do so, John McCain has finally rejected the endorsement of his bid for the presidency by the ultra-right-wing “pastor” John Hagee. The so-called rejection came after media reports showed Hagee had...
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Stop the ICE raids now
May 30, 2008The headlines say it all: “900 nabbed in state on immigration charges,” “A raid on fairness,” “Immigration raids terrify kids, House is told.” In the last two months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have swept...
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