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FAA shutdown and labor’s unhappy anniversary
August 8, 2011It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow that sent the American labor movement tumbling into a decline it's still struggling to reverse.
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CIA use of immunization program has troubling history
August 8, 2011In search of Bin Laden the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency offered immunization shots against Hepatitis B to the poor people of Abbottabad, in Pakistan, as a CIA front program.
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S&P “bond vigilantes” take aim – at us
August 8, 2011Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
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Chicago activists rally for jobs not cuts
August 5, 2011Dozens of unemployed activists and supporters rallied here at Federal Plaza August 5 urging Congress to enact a massive federal jobs program and not to cut badly needed social entitlement programs.
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For the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, end nuclear arms
August 5, 2011Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since Hiroshima and Nagasaki - but such good fortune may not last forever.
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