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Thousands shut down Chicago streets at ALEC meeting
August 9, 2013The demonstrators say ALEC is hurting just about everyone in America who is not part of the top one percent.
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Russian Communists must stand against LGBTQ persecution
August 9, 2013We have a saying: "An injury to one is an injury to all." Diminishing the rights of gays and lesbians diminishes rights for all Russians and creates an anti-democratic mood.
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The White House and “Cold War mentality”
August 9, 2013President Obama told a Tonight Show audience Aug. 6 that there are times the Russians "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."
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Today in labor history: Mexican leader Emilano Zapata born
August 8, 2013Zapata headed the land reform struggles of Mexican farmers and was a leader of the Mexican revolution.
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The annual budget kabuki is not kabuki this year
August 8, 2013For the past several years the winter months in Washington have been consumed in political showdowns over the federal budget.
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