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Bush health care plan: Youre on your own
February 2, 2007Health care advocates slammed President Bush’s latest health care proposals as free-market fantasy that would dismantle employer-provided health coverage, enrich insurance companies and worsen the nation’s health care crisis.
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Union blasts immigration raid at Smithfield
February 2, 2007Instigated by a company hell-bent on keeping out a union, the U.S. government raided the world’s largest pork processing plant, Smithfield Packing, in Tar Heel, N.C., on Jan. 24. The United Food and Commercial Workers union...
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We voted for peace Marchers tell Congress to end Iraq war
February 2, 2007WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 antiwar lobbyists from 48 states visited hundreds of lawmakers’ offices on Monday, Jan. 29, to urge them to pass a Senate resolution opposing the Iraq war and to use the “power...
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CIA, Congress intervening in Venezuelas affairs
January 31, 2007CIA chief Michael Hayden recently assured a congressional intelligence committee that the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela is of prime agency concern. Outgoing intelligence head John Negroponte testified that Washington had a “good position in terms...
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New Jersey moves to abolish the death penalty
January 27, 2007The New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission, after nearly a year of deliberations, released its report and recommendations on Jan. 2.
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