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Venezuela targets private banks
June 5, 2009Original source: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to sanction private banks which fail to co-operate with his administration's drive to construct a socialist economy. Mr Chavez said that banks should facilitate exchange by providing credit...
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To rebuild U.S. economy, we need to make things again
June 5, 2009WASHINGTON — 'We've had eight years of a failed economic policy,' Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) told a packed workshop titled “Manufacturing America: Common Sense About Global Economic Strategy,” at the America’s Future Now conference here this...
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Grassroots rising up for public health care option
June 5, 2009SEQUIM, Wash. — More than 70 people turned out June 2 to hear Organizing for America’s Washington State organizer, Dustin Lambro, call for a powerful grassroots movement here and across the nation to win national health...
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President Obama’s speech in Cairo
June 5, 2009The following is a text of President Obama's prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House.
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Doubling down on green jobs
June 4, 2009Original source: WASHINGTON -- Last August, then-candidate Barack Obama declared that, if elected, he would create five million new, green jobs. He's pushed that promise hard, with his stimulus package, appointments, and support of an ambitious...
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