Following the declaration by President Bush’s chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S. invasion – the administration’s stated reason for the Iraq war – Bush’s move to set up an investigation commission to look into “intelligence failures” is being assailed as a damage control and cover-up effort. 
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Feb 7, 2004
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Favorite son John Edwards carried South Carolina and John Kerry captured five other states in the Feb. 3 Democratic primaries. Gen. Wesley Clark eked out a narrow win in Oklahoma. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut dropped out. But regardless of the state, voters sent a loud, clear message that Bush must go Nov. 2. click here for Spanish text
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Marcus Dixon is sitting in jail because of racist injustice. Dixon, a Black teenager on his way to college, is instead serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual sex when he was 18 years old with a white girl who was just a few months shy of turning 16. Dixon is from Georgia, and his story conjures up memories of some of the worst chapters of racist bigotry in the U.S.
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Presidents of the seven locals of striking and locked out Southern California grocery workers appeared in simultaneous press conferences in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Palm Desert and San Diego on Feb. 4 making public a joint letter challenging three supermarket CEOs to submit the strike’s outstanding issues to binding arbitration.
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The diverse group of trade unionists, students, peace activists and community leaders came from about 25 states – from Alaska to Georgia, California to Maine.
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Military contractors Boeing and Northrop Grumman were the big winners in the $2.4 trillion budget presented to Congress Feb. 2 by George W. Bush. The proposed budget is a financial blueprint for disaster in Bush’s drive to keep the White House.
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FORT BENNING, Ga. – The trials of 27 people arrested here for their November protest of the infamous “School of the Assassins” began Jan. 26 before a federal magistrate.
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GREENWICH, Conn.: Bush feels street heat in arctic air / READING, Penn.: School district sues on ‘No Child’ / SALT LAKE CITY: State House says drop firing squad / SACRAMENTO, Calif.: State jails dangerous for youth / MONTGOMERY, Ala.: Some get landfills, others don’t
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“Race crime shock – attacks now averaging nearly one a day.” This front-page headline in the Belfast Telegraph sent shivers down many observers’ spines last month.
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Canada: Wal-Mart workers organize / Haiti: Gov’t TV station attacked / India: General strike set for Feb. 24 / Cuba: U.S. & Cuban psychiatrists meet / South Africa-Germany: Unions strengthen ties
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