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  • AUSTRALIA:  New drive against racism

    AUSTRALIA: New drive against racism

    February 27, 2009

    MELBOURNE, Feb 26 (IPS) - With new figures showing that 44 percent of Australians were either born overseas or have at least one parent who was, community organisations have welcomed a stepped-up government programme to tackle...

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  • After eight years of Bush, can OSHA be fixed?

    After eight years of Bush, can OSHA be fixed?

    February 27, 2009

    Original source: The Bush administration left a lot of wreckage in its wake. The crumbling economy, the home foreclosure crisis and a broken health care system are getting most of the recent headlines and calls for...

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  • Quotas on immigrant arrests stirs outrage

    Quotas on immigrant arrests stirs outrage

    February 26, 2009

    BALTIMORE—CASA de Maryland, an immigrant rights organization, has just released a videotape of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting 24 Latino workers and shoppers at a 7-Eleven in 2007 based solely on racial profiling, a...

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  • Job Creation Key to Recovery, Obama Stresses

    Job Creation Key to Recovery, Obama Stresses

    February 26, 2009

    WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IPS) - In his first speech before a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a hopeful assessment of the country’s future and defended his economic recovery plan to get there....

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  • Nuclear Doomsday Clock may finally stop ticking

    Nuclear Doomsday Clock may finally stop ticking

    February 26, 2009

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration’s apparent resolve to take U.S. foreign policy in a new direction is creating ripples of hope for an enhanced U.N. agenda on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament....

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