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Iran: Turmoil at the top
June 17, 2011There is a struggle between Ahmadinejad and the clerics around Khamenei, but, while it may play out in arguments over obscure religious issues, the fight is over political and economic power.
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Single-payer rally “welcomes” insurance industry group
June 17, 2011It's no surprise that this week's meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans, the health insurance industry's national trade association, was greeted by a "welcoming committee."
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Political prisoner dies in Iran jail
June 17, 2011Another victim of the Iranian regime's brutal repression, hunger striking political prisoner Hoda Saber, has died in jail.
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Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally
June 16, 2011Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.
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In South Korea, strike leaders land in court
June 16, 2011180 Vietnamese migrant workers building a wharf in Inchon, South Korea, launched one brief strike in July, 2010, and another last January.
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