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  • Cuba: Weathering the storms, from Gustav to Ike

    Cuba: Weathering the storms, from Gustav to Ike

    September 9, 2008

    HAVANA – (Sept. 8) A little report on the TV just updated the situation in Guantanamo. The entire province is without electricity. Cuba has a policy of turning off electricity and gas, as a preventive measure...

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  • Arctic eyewitness

    Arctic eyewitness

    September 9, 2008

    The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (pro-oil groups prefer its foreign-sounding acronym, ANWR) is ground zero in the War on the Environment. If the oil companies win the fight to drill there, no place will be off-limits...

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  • Is Freddie Mac REALLY never coming back?

    Is Freddie Mac REALLY never coming back?

    September 9, 2008

    The Bush administration seized control this week of the scandal-ridden mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the drive for profits by the corporate executives running them threatened both the financial markets and the entire...

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  • Growing jobless figures impact presidential race

    Growing jobless figures impact presidential race

    September 8, 2008

    The official jobless rate topped 6.1 percent in August bringing the plight of U.S. workers into the center of the political arena as the presidential campaign enters its final eight weeks. 84,000 workers lost their jobs...

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  • Striking Machinists at Boeing ask: How do you hide $13 billion?

    Striking Machinists at Boeing ask: How do you hide $13 billion?

    September 7, 2008

    “How do you hide $13 billion? Do you stuff it in an airplane? Do you give it to the CEO? Or, do you share it with your workers?” These questions are printed on union flyers being...

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