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Union Condemns Latest Killing of Journalist in Baghdad
March 14, 2008The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the killing of Iraqi media executive, Qassem Abdul Hussein al-Eqabi, who was shot in Baghdad earlier today, and called on the government to improve the safety of media...
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Central American solidarity activists dispute DOJ order
March 12, 2008WASHINGTON-- The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), illegally targeted in the 1980’s by the largest FBI Internal Security investigation of the Reagan era, has in recent months again received threatening communications...
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McCain flip flops on Social Security
March 12, 2008Vows to revive privatization Angry retirees descended on Social Security Administration offices in downtown Phoenix Mar. 7 holding placards that read, “Tell McCain ‘hands off Social Security.’” They were protesting Republican Sen. John McCain’s recent statements...
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What will it take to bring progressive change?
March 11, 2008“I never looked at the primaries before, but this year they got my notice,” a former factory worker now stuck in a low-wage health care job exclaimed to me recently. She stays glued to the election...
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Story of a massacre
March 11, 2008Colombian troops attacked inside Ecuador on March 1, destroying a camp occupied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Ecuadorian soldiers later found 23 bodies, including those of five Mexican young people visiting the site....
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