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Private airport security firms get the boot
November 22, 2001Privatization, the holy Grail of the ultra-right, has taken some heavy hits since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and not just because the heroes were public employees – firefighters, emergency medical workers and the police. The...
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Peoples Weekly World: An alternative news source that needs your support!
November 22, 2001After the record-breaking fund drive of National Public Radio, it is clear people want to hear the stories from the alternative media. The alternatative media reports the stories censored by the corporate media. The People’s Weekly...
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They had no turkey for Thanksgiving
November 22, 2001When I talked to her the Monday before Thanksgiving, Carolina Morales was standing in line at the food pantry run by St. Maurice Catholic Church in Chicago’s Southwest side. She had come to pick up sacks...
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False friend wrote the book on backstabbing
November 17, 2001The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57, by Vernon L. Pedersen, University of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago 2001. The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57, is a strange book by an even stranger author. Vernon Pedersen appeared...
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Globalization and India
November 17, 2001Despite the enthusiasm of its supporters economic globalization gives rise to fierce exploitation, economic instability and crisis. The “globalization” touted by the major economic gurus has created problems around the world, including AIDs, poverty, hunger, debt,...
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