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Chicagoans to vote on liberties, jobs, Iraq

February 27, 2004

CHICAGO – Voters in Chicago’s 49th Ward in the northside community of Rogers Park will have their say on three urgent national issues – Bush’s attack on civil liberties, a federal jobs program, and the phase-out...

Wall Street loves Bush budget

February 27, 2004 By Art Perlo

Under the Bush administration, the federal debt has reached record dollar amounts. The latest budget, which claims to cut the deficit in half in five years, is a work of fiction – under the Bush program,...

Southwest, the LUV airline, is a heart-breaker

February 27, 2004

DALLAS – Flight attendants in Transport Workers Union Local 556 sent a powerful Valentine’s Day message to the bosses at Southwest Airlines Feb. 13 with informational pickets and rallies at all seven major airports served. There...

Bush sneaks in another extremist judge

February 27, 2004

Reaction to George W. Bush’s Feb. 20 back-door appointment of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor as a U.S. appeals court judge was swift and scathing. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the senior members of the...

Appealing for justice: the case of the Cuban 5

February 27, 2004

Although there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that Cuba sponsors terrorism or is developing biological weapons programs, there is a great deal of evidence linking Washington to the 40-year old terrorist network that...