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  • Save Main Street not Wall Street!

    Save Main Street not Wall Street!

    September 26, 2008

    The Bush administration has proposed a massive bailout plan of at least $700 billion (maybe as much as $1.7 trillion) to stabilize the financial system amid the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Treasury Secretary...

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  • LETTERS: September 23

    LETTERS: September 23

    September 26, 2008

    Wrong? In your introduction to your online “A complete guide to the Wall Street crisis” you say: “The week of September 15, 2008 has been a dramatic and unprecedented period in the world of high finance....

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  • EDITORIAL: Shock and awe revisited

    EDITORIAL: Shock and awe revisited

    September 26, 2008

    The Bush administration developed expertise in the use of “shock and awe” in its Iraq war for oil. Now it is using those tactics in economic warfare against the American people. Having sent over 4,100 Americans...

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  • Latino voters key to Western states

    Latino voters key to Western states

    September 26, 2008

    With the Nov. 4 presidential election just weeks away, a monumental battle is heating up in a few crucial swing states, as some 9 million Latino voters prepare to cast ballots which could be the deciding...

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  • When your union contract expires  Who do you want in the White House?

    When your union contract expires Who do you want in the White House?

    September 26, 2008

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As 4,000 workers at Yale University gear up for a contract fight next year, and 2,000 workers at Yale New Haven Hospital continue their organizing drive, the question of who will be...

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