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More job stimulus desperately needed
August 15, 2009Economic reports for July showing unemployment rising, retail sales falling and mortgage foreclosures at an all time high, touched off warnings from economists: only stronger action by the federal government to create jobs, extend unemployment benefits...
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Tel Aviv protest backs migrant workers
August 15, 2009Original source: Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to demonstrate against Israel's 'revolving-door policy' on migrant workers. Monday's march, organised by the Communist Party of Israel's Democratic Front for Peace and...
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US military aid to Colombia is privatized
August 15, 2009Venezuelan-U.S. lawyer Eva Golinger claims that more than half of the $520 million paid out by the U.S. State Department as military aid to Colombia under Plan Colombia is routed through private U.S. contractors. Golinger makes...
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Professor in Colombia victim of repression
August 14, 2009Miguel Ángel Beltrán, formerly a sociology professor at the National University and University of Antioquia, was extradited last May from Mexico City to Colombia. He’s been in jail since. Judicial proceedings began late last month on...
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‘The biggest fight between labor and capital since 1947’
August 14, 2009PITTSBURGH - 'We are on the verge of passing the most important piece of legislation in 75 years - the Employee Free Choice Act,' AFL-CIO director of organizing Stewart Acuff told a packed panel discussion here...
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