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EDITORIAL: Out of Iraq … when?
July 27, 2007A classified plan leaked in The New York Times July 23 reveals that the Pentagon plans to keep troops in Iraq at least two more years, despite the mounting nationwide and worldwide clamor that the U.S....
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Cuba survives and inspires
July 27, 2007Forty-five years ago, Bob Dylan described revolutionary Cuba as “a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it.” Some things don’t change. As recently as July 2006, the United States announced it would not “allow” a...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR July 28
July 27, 2007New Kennedy bill would further boost minimum wage Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) announced July 24 that he has introduced a new minimum wage hike bill that would raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by...
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Corn, chickens and capitalism
July 27, 2007The economic driving force of production in capitalist society is profits. This usually leads to multiple contradictions between conflicting forces of capital. Take the current energy crisis. It has at least two related origins. First is...
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Auto CEOs drool over Delphis takeaways
July 27, 2007DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union battled to get a new contract with Delphi and is now beginning tough negotiations with the Big Three automakers, Ford, GM and Chrysler. The Delphi contract includes the closure...
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