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  • EDITORIAL: Republican hypocrisy

    EDITORIAL: Republican hypocrisy

    March 10, 2006

    Republican senators bowed to the White House March 7, dropping their opposition to warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency in exchange for a fig-leaf concession by President Bush. The deal, concocted by Vice President Dick...

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  • EDITORIAL:  Whos corrupt?

    EDITORIAL: Whos corrupt?

    March 10, 2006

    In February 2003 Bush’s Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao issued an undisguised threat to the elected union leaders representing millions of Americans. At a meeting of the executive council of the AFL-CIO, to which Chao had...

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  • Rich history, bright future: The Japanese Communist Party convenes

    Rich history, bright future: The Japanese Communist Party convenes

    March 10, 2006

    ATAMI CITY, Japan — It’s 3:55 a.m. A small truck rolls along the dark rain-slick streets of the Seiso District of Odawara City, a little hamlet propped on the coast of Sagami Bay southwest of Tokyo....

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  • Gulf Coast Update

    Gulf Coast Update

    March 10, 2006

    Bodies still being found Bush, lies and videotape Immigrant workers win back pay Act to extend jobless benefits

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  • Oakland City Council OKs card-check measure

    Oakland City Council OKs card-check measure

    March 10, 2006

    OAKLAND, Calif. — This city became the first to tell a cable company it must agree to recognize a union based on card check when the City Council late last month passed an ordinance requiring city...

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