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WORLD NOTES: August 23
August 22, 2008Iraq: Who controls contract workers? The Congressional Budget Office reported Aug. 11 that the 190,000 private contractors working in Iraq and neighboring countries match the number of U.S. troops there. They earn up to 12 times...
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Key Senate races could break GOP grip
August 22, 2008With voter anger rising over endless war and a plummeting economy, Republicans could lose as many as 11 seats in the U.S. Senate and as many as 30 seats in the House this fall. John Mark...
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The price of empire worries even some on Wall Street
August 20, 2008“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in...
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Video $500 Shoes and Million Dollar Homes: McCain’s the Elitist in this Race
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Show me the jobs, brewery workers tell InBev Beer and globalization dont mix in St. Louis
August 20, 2008St. LOUIS – “InBev, we aren’t going to have a race to the bottom here,” said Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) to 1,000 Teamsters and their allies as they rallied here Aug. 16. InBev, a Belgian-based multi-national...
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