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  • Letters: Jan. 12, 2008

    Letters: Jan. 12, 2008

    January 11, 2008

    New Year’s greeting Unfortunately I am now totally blind, and am not able to do any more than to dictate this to you: A happy new year to you and all our comrades. Celia and I...

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  • The murder of Bhutto: Cold War fallout

    The murder of Bhutto: Cold War fallout

    January 11, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

    The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan last month has a direct relationship to the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the subject of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the Hollywood “comedy” in which a corrupt congressman and...

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  • Getting to the root of Kenyas conflict

    Getting to the root of Kenyas conflict

    January 11, 2008

    The sitting president, Mwai Kibaki, supported by an entrenched ruling class, faces masses of ordinary Kenyans who voted for Raila Odinga, the popularly-named “people’s president” who they believe was denied victory in elections on Dec. 27....

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  • World notes: Jan. 12, 2008

    World notes: Jan. 12, 2008

    January 11, 2008 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    Nigeria: Russians compete for natural gas Turkey: Women win strike China: Legislation benefits workers Italy: Marchers denounce U.S. base Venezuela: Chavez issues amnesty

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  • Labor news around the nation

    Labor news around the nation

    January 9, 2008

    LOS ANGELES (PAI)--Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has sided with the joint Teamsters-environmentalist “clean trucks” campaign at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach, Ricardo Hidalgo reports in the Southern California Teamster. The union is...

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