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Banks defeat Senate amendment to help struggling homeowners
May 5, 2009Original source: Due to stiff opposition from the banking and mortgage industries, the Senate voted against passing (45-51) an amendment Thursday that would have given bankruptcy judges the ability to rework defaulted home mortgages on family...
Read moreHaymarket anniversary marks workers historic struggle for labor standards
May 5, 2009Original source: Workers and their unions gathered Friday in Chicago at the Haymarket monument to honor the significance and sacrifice of those who died in the struggle for the eight-hour day. On this day in 1886...
Read moreAmerica’s RNs call for much broader response to swine flu
May 4, 2009After years of shredding our public health infrastructure and ill-advised minimal preparations for the next great global pandemic, the spreading swine flu threat is at last making clear the very real calamity that could be just...
Read moreIran attacks Kurdish guerillas with helicopters
May 4, 2009Original source: Iranian helicopter gunships and artillery units pummeled suspected Kurdish guerilla positions in northern Iraq at the weekend. Tehran has regularly shelled Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK) bases in Iraq in recent years,...
Read moreCarter denounces Bolivian separatist movements
May 4, 2009Translated from Mexico City-based La Jornada by Emile Schepers LA PAZ -- Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, denounced on May 2 separatist movements in Bolivia. He anticipated...
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