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  • Chryslers signing bonus: pink slip for workers

    Chryslers signing bonus: pink slip for workers

    November 9, 2007

    Rank-and-file roiled by job and shift cuts as tentative deal is reached with Ford Less than a week after Chrysler workers barely approved a concessionary contract, the company’s Nov. 1 announcement that it will slash 10,000...

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  • From Pakistan to Iran: Bush policy spreads war danger

    From Pakistan to Iran: Bush policy spreads war danger

    November 9, 2007 By Susan Webb

    The new crisis in Pakistan demonstrates the hypocrisy of Bush administration saber-rattling against Iran, foreign policy analysts say.

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  • Is GOP scheming to steal another election?

    Is GOP scheming to steal another election?

    November 9, 2007

    Just weeks ago, a proposed ballot initiative by far-right Republicans with links to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani seemed dead, after efforts to put it on California’s June primary ballot imploded amid secretive financial maneuvering by its...

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  • The inhumanity of partial truth

    The inhumanity of partial truth

    November 2, 2007

    There is a lot of truth to go around in this world. When you have a world of complexity, you also have, and need, many ways of looking at and understanding it. The problem comes when...

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  • The fires and the media beast

    The fires and the media beast

    November 2, 2007

    As the smoke and ash settle out here in San Diego, a few things have become evident about the news in this age of disaster capitalism. One is the class nature of the corporate media beast....

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