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Editorials
February 1, 2002Meeting the challenge African-American History Month begins against the backdrop of deepening working-class poverty and unemployment, ongoing racial profiling and more Black men and women in jail than in college. The Sept. 11 attack is still...
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Students oppose tuition hikes
February 1, 2002CHICAGO – Deep funding cuts aimed at solving the Illinois state budget crisis will wallop students in the University of Illinois (U of I) system. Republican Gov. George Ryan has cut $34 million in funds allocated...
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Break the silence on civilian deaths
February 1, 2002The capitalist press has been shy about revealing the toll the “War on Terrorism” has exacted on the innocent in Afghanistan. Those residing in the U.S. are not being told about the devastation that U.S. bombs...
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Infinite justification
February 1, 2002President Bush has declared that he is fighting a “war against terrorism,” and this war, different from any the U.S. has fought before, will go on for an undefined, unspecified, but protracted length of time. At...
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Subsidies are todays key farm issue
February 1, 2002Just when the Republican majority of the House had approved farm subsidies for the next 10 years and the Democrat-controlled Senate, with the support of some Republicans, stood ready to enact subsidies for the next five...
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