News
Privateers profit on GIs misery
March 9, 2007Hearings expose privatization, red tape nightmare at Walter Reed WASHINGTON — Wounded soldiers and a soldier’s wife told a congressional hearing March 5 of their daily ordeal to get help at Walter Reed Army Medical Center,...
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Workers, not guests
March 2, 2007Ten days before Christmas, the Woodfin Suite Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., fired Luz Dominguez and 20 other housekeepers. Managers announced they’d received a letter from Social Security saying the numbers they’d given when they were originally...
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Reflections on returning to Vietnam
March 2, 2007I recently came back from a remarkable return visit to Vietnam. My first trip to Vietnam was in 1972 during the war, when Nixon decided to bomb Hanoi during the Christmas holidays. The contrast with today’s...
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LETTERS
March 2, 2007Fact check on Venezuela Here’s a fact check on U.S. government and corporate media statements on the Venezuelan “threat.” Condoleezza Rice, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Fox News, to name but a few, all warn of the Venezuelan...
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EDITORIAL: Wall Street tumbles …
March 2, 2007The question, “Are we heading into a recession?” has been hanging like a dark cloud over Wall Street since the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 416 points Feb. 27, the stock market’s worst day since Sept....
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