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Inside & outside NE health summit: Hundreds demand fundamental reform
March 25, 2009BURLINGTON, Vt. — Two different groups of people gathered here March 17 to talk about solving the health care crisis. Inside the Davis Center at the University of Vermont were some 400 people invited to the...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales to address UN on Mother Earth Day
March 25, 2009“We hope that this new century is the century of the rights of mother earth.” Pablo Solon, ambassador to the UN from the South America nation of Bolivia met with fifty-plus community and labor activists at...
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COMMENTARY: Whats so sacred about a contract?
March 25, 2009Two of the nation’s “big three” auto companies, General Motors and Chrysler, both on the verge of bankruptcy, are asking the government for loans to keep them afloat. Unlike the insurance giant AIG and the big...
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US ‘struggling to exit Afghanistan’
March 25, 2009President Barack Obama has indicated that his administration is struggling to cook up a coherent 'exit strategy' in Afghanistan. In a televised interview aired on Sunday, Mr Obama said: 'There's got to be an exit strategy...
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Geithner’s latest bank rescue plan: When Wall Street cheers people should worry
March 25, 2009Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner unveiled March 23 the latest and most expansive bank rescue plan to date since the global financial crisis began to deepen in August 2007. Billed as a 'public-private partnership' to...
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