Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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Peace
New U.S. military strategy: concerns and a ray of hope
January 17, 2012The Defense Department's new strategic guidance released this month offers a modest foothold in the struggle to reverse the ever-upward swing of U.S. military spending.
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U.S.
California governor proposes more cuts
January 6, 2012Jerry Brown released his budget proposals, including slashes to already devastated human needs spending and a projection of new revenues from sales taxes and taxes for millionaires.
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U.S.
New bill would open the way to cleaner ports
December 20, 2011Members of Congress are stepping up the fight to overturn a longstanding roadblock to cleaning up air pollution affecting some 87 million people living near major U.S. ports.
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U.S.
West coast Occupy movement targets corporate giants at ports
December 13, 2011Occupy Oakland demonstrators shut down the Port of Oakland Dec. 12 as part of a West Coast-wide protest against giant corporations at ports from San Diego to Anchorage, Alaska.
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U.S.
Bay area activists protest home foreclosures
December 7, 2011It's a story heard in neighborhood after neighborhood here, as around the nation.
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World
Russian Communists make big gains in elections
December 6, 2011Results of Russia's Dec. 4 parliamentary elections have upended the United Russia party's dominance of the government. They foreshadow new challenges to current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
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Labor
New York City Opera contract talks in crisis
December 2, 2011New York City Opera, one of the city's cultural treasures, stood at a crossroads this week, after contract talks broke down Nov. 30 between management and its two main unions.
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U.S.
Occupy movement takes up new challenges
November 22, 2011The Oakland occupy movement is stepping up activities focused on national and local demands despite police evictions of its downtown tent encampments.
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