In explosive revelations this week, former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke charged that the Bush administration had little interest in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks except for how they could be used to promote war on Iraq. 
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Mar 27, 2004
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Weirton Steel Corp. announced this week that it would cut off health care benefits for its 10,000 retirees effective April 1.
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CHICAGO – Barak Obama’s historic, landslide victory in the March 16 Illinois Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate is a victory for independent, grassroots, coalition politics over money and machine politics. Obama now opposes millionaire Republican Jack Ryan in a must-win race if the Democrats are to retake the Senate.
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NEW YORK – People from all walks of life gathered here March 20 to rally, march and demand the Bush administration return the troops home and end the occupation of Iraq. Anti-Bush sentiments were high among the estimated 100,000 people from up and down the East Coast. click here for Spanish text
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Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) will host a National Health Insurance Conference, April 16-17, to kick off a 50-state campaign for passage of national health insurance legislation, HR 676 – the “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.”
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Resolutions supporting HR 676, the “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act,” have been unanimously passed by two labor bodies here in Northwest Indiana in the past two weeks.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Nothing could be finer than to be in North Carolina March 20 when the crab apples were in bloom and more than 800 people marched through town chanting, “Bring the troops home, now!”
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SEATTLE: Profits vs. jobs, environment / AUGUSTA, Maine: Handicapped, caregivers fight for justice / LANSING, Mich.: Governor outlaws outsourcing / CINCINNATI: Feds make parents surrender kids for health care / NEW YORK: Outcry wins battle for women’s dignity
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The Israeli government’s assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin has ignited a firestorm of outrage and turmoil throughout the Middle East and far beyond.
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Colombia: Coke workers on hunger strike / Haiti: Demand jail for death squad leaders / Cuba: Orbis to create eye bank / Namibia: 14 years of independence / Australia: New law cuts basic labor rights
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