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President Obama pledges to sign tobacco bill
June 13, 2009In remarks from the White House lawn June 12 President Obama welcomed the passage of a bill in Congress this week that will impose strong regulations on tobacco products, and he signaled his intention to sign...
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Women’s movement in Iran’s presidential elections
June 13, 2009The ancient country of Iran in the last two centuries has witnessed many internal and regional political crises. The major internal political events in the last 150 years include the attack by Tsarist Russia on Iran,...
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Letters
June 12, 2009USW knows Koch Re: “Anti-union, anti-gov’t group takes aim at public health plan,” www.pww.org/article/articleview/15783/: The Koch family is well known to the USW (United Steelworkers). A few years back they bought Georgia Pacific, a company with...
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COMMENTARY Holocaust Museum, Dr. Tiller: Janet Napolitano saw it coming
June 12, 2009When President Obama’s new Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, issued a report in early April that warned law enforcement bodies in the U.S. about the dangers of a potential rise in “right-wing extremist activity,” Republicans and...
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Rally at Wells Fargo: Save jobs and homes now!
June 12, 2009CHICAGO – Dozens of people rallied at the downtown Wells Fargo bank here June 11, including a caravan of Quad City Die Casting workers demanding the bank restore credit to their Moline, Ill. factory, which is...
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