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Cuba prepares for UN resolution, U.S. renews blockade
September 24, 2009“Not even in a state of war, do international conventions allow a blockade of food and medicines,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriquez declared on Sept. 16. He was introducing reporters to a Cuban report to the...
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Health care rallies: ‘Big Insurance Makes Me Sick!’
September 24, 2009OWINGS MILLS, MD.--Fighters for health care reform holding placards with slogans like “People Before Profit” and “Public Option Now” rallied outside health insurance company offices Sept. 22 to demand that Congress stop kowtowing to insurance profiteers...
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Honduras: Women’s group says airports are closed
September 24, 2009SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- The Forum of Women for Life sent out the following statement on the situation in Honduras since its president, Manuel Zelaya, returned to the country on Sept. 21.
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Health insurance premiums grow faster than wages
September 24, 2009While wage growth, impacted by inflation, has eroded steadily over the past decade, the cost of a typical health insurance plan has grown as much as 150 percent, a new report put out by the Obama...
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Flood victims hail $35 billion water main bill
September 24, 2009DUNDALK, Md. — Stirred to action by the rupture of a 72-inch water-main that inflicted devastation on working-class communities here last weekend, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced the Water Infrastructure Financing Act in the U.S. Senate...
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