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Capitalist hypocrisy and Eastern European anti-communism
February 12, 2010There is a new push in the Czech Republic to bar the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia from running candidates for public office or otherwise functioning like other political parties.
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The background behind Toyota recall
February 12, 2010The underlying cause, says a Japanese labor researcher, is the company's stress on "low cost" in pursuit of high profits, at the expense of its workers and consumer safety.
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Anthem Blue Cross – poster child for urgency of health reform
February 11, 2010With its move to raise premiums on individual policyholders in California by up to 39 percent, Anthem Blue Cross enraged customers and elected officials.
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Lorraine Hansberry home gets landmark status
February 11, 2010Chicago's City Council has given landmark status to the home of the author/activist who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Jobs crisis spotlighted at monument built by WPA
February 11, 2010DALLAS - At a Robert E. Lee memorial built by the New Deal's WPA government jobs program, an NAACP leader and others called for federal action on jobs.
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