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Panama: A measure of justice but more is needed
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Karl Marx once noted, “The rate of profit is the motive power of capitalist production. Things are produced only as long as they can be produced with a profit.” Does this apply to food?
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After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States had the chance to do something good and right, Barack Obama said in a major Iraq policy speech this week. But a failure of leadership and ideas on the part of the Bush administration led us down the wrong path.
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A fruitful way to understand the fanatical efforts of America’s right wing is to realize that they want to turn back the clock and the calendar. Their efforts are clearest within the Texas Education Agency, where crazy scandals are epidemic.
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“Bashing workers” was how AFL-CIO executive vice president Arlene Holt-Baker, characterized presumptive Republican nominee John McCain's speech at the 99th convention of the NAACP in Cincinnati on Wednesday. "He took the opportunity to, quite frankly, bash workers who are in education, our teachers," she said, according to reporter Jim Provanche of the Toledo Blade.
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Dozens of tenants at the California Hotel won a small but significant victory July 11, when a judge ordered the building’s owner and managers to keep the hotel open and maintain utilities, managerial and security services pending a further court hearing on July 30.
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One of the main slogans of the massive marches which started three years ago for a just and comprehensive reform of immigration laws was, “Today we march, tomorrow we vote.”
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The Obama campaign opened this week with a focus on the Iraq war, despite the claims of pundits who insist the war is John McCain's strongest point.
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“It's downright offensive” was the sentiment echoed by Manhattan protesters Tuesday complaining of the New Yorker cover painting the Obama's as terrorists at a press conference at the magazine's headquarters. The event was called by State Senator Bill Perkins. “It was offensive to the values that New Yorkers have, it was offensive to the values that Americans have, and it is beyond just an insult,” said Perkins.
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