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Calls grow to close Gitmo jail, seek truth on Downing Street Memo
June 10, 2005In the wake of charges by Amnesty International that U.S. detention centers at Guantanamo and elsewhere constitute “the gulag of our times,” one of the Senate’s leading Democrats, Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), and former President Jimmy...
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1,400 at D.C. meet say Take Back America
June 10, 2005WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters, chanting “Hands off my Social Security” and “Not wise to privatize,” marched to the White House in the rain June 3. The march came at the conclusion of a three-day “Take...
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Bolivian protests shake government
June 9, 2005LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Carlos Mesa offered to resign here June 6, seeking to quell weeks of anti-government protests that have paralyzed parts of the country. The offer came as tens of thousands of...
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Target censors Soviet imagery on shirts
June 7, 2005Target Corporation, a nationwide chain of retail stores, carried, until recently, several shirts by Roma Atletica featuring several variations on Soviet logos. I purchased a black shirt emblazoned with the letters CCCP on 14 May, and...
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Texas judge rules against DeLay political action committee
June 5, 2005On May 26 a Texas judge turned up the temperature under the soup pot that’s cooking Congressman Tom DeLay’s political career. District Judge Joe Hart ruled that Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, which...
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