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The year in headlines: election and economy

December 30, 2008

WASHINGTON (PAI)--The election, the election, the election…and the economy. Or maybe, by the end of the year, it was: The economy, the economy, the economy and the election. Or, actually, it was both. As reflected in...

Ash flood may change way TVA handles coal waste

December 30, 2008

KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) — The spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash from a power plant in East Tennessee may change the way the nation’s largest government-owned utility stores coal waste. Roane County...

CPUSA condemns Gaza attacks

December 30, 2008

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) emphatically condemns the continuing Israeli air strikes in Gaza, which have left hundreds dead and over a thousand wounded. The hundreds of Israeli air strikes have been carried out with a...

Calls grow for U.S. action on Gaza ceasefire

December 30, 2008 By Susan Webb

As the United Nations Security Council called for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, Jewish and Arab American groups urged the Bush administration and other nations to act to stop the escalating violence.

For Cuba, revolution made all the difference

December 30, 2008

Observers, for example Michel Chossudovsky (GlobalResearch.ca), predict fallout from the collapse of the U.S. economy will dwarf ramifications of the 1930s great depression. Neither, however, affected the United States as seriously as the calamity triggered by...