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Obama calls for middle class bailout

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Braving chilly temperatures and the threat of rain, a crowd estimated by local media at 16,000 turned out Thursday morning to hear Barack Obama emphasize the need to bail out working families...

Shades of Green: October 4

Pow! Bam! Comics give it to the system

BOOK REVIEW Inside the World of Comic Books Jeffery Klaehn, Ed. Black Rose Books, 2008 Paperback, 258 pp., $24.99 By Tim Pelzer While there are no longer comic racks in every corner store, comics are still...

How a globalized system creates illegality

BOOK REVIEW Illegal People By David Bacon Beacon Press, 2004 Hardcover, 261 pp., $26.95 Photojournalist and activist David Bacon provides us with a useful and readable account of undocumented migration to the United States. He takes...

Letters: OCTOBER 4

Bailout Former Communist Party Chair Gus Hall stated in the opening of his book “Imperialism Today”: “The French have a saying: ‘The more things change, the more they remain the same.’” This is most interesting because...