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  • EDITORIAL: No blank check on justice

    EDITORIAL: No blank check on justice

    September 21, 2007

    Media pundits, commentators and spin doctors are busy once again, interpreting the choice by President Bush of Michael B. Mukasey to replace the disgraced Antonio Gonzales as attorney general. Missing from most of the “analysis” is...

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  • Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity

    Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity

    September 21, 2007 By Libero Della Piana

    There is a new danger plaguing Africa: zones of conflict are expanding into regional wars that take an ever-increasing human toll. In the recent past, Africa was wracked by wars for liberation from colonial rule, coups...

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  • Public betrayal: AMAs health care proposal

    Public betrayal: AMAs health care proposal

    September 21, 2007

    In lockstep with its 1960s opposition to Medicare, the American Medical Association continues to promote health insurance profits over affordable, quality health care for all. In late August, the AMA released a plan, “Voice for the...

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  • ADAPT confronts nursing home segregation

    ADAPT confronts nursing home segregation

    September 21, 2007

    CHICAGO — A long line of disability rights activists marched and wheeled through the streets here Sept. 9-11 chanting, “Our homes, not nursing homes, to protest the inadequate funding for affordable housing and unnecessary segregation into...

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  • Striking loggers, environmentalists unite

    Striking loggers, environmentalists unite

    September 21, 2007 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    PITTSBURGH — In front of 100 Home Depot stores in Canada and the United States, members of the United Steelworkers and environmental activists from the Sierra Club and the Rainforest Action Network will be distributing flyers,...

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