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  • EDITORIAL: Liars, liars … part 2

    EDITORIAL: Liars, liars … part 2

    March 9, 2007

    In 2002, the Bush administration led the United States to confront North Korea, cutting off oil supplies. In response, North Korea angrily threw out International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. A full-blown nuclear crisis was provoked. Why?...

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  • EDITORIAL: Liars, liars

    EDITORIAL: Liars, liars

    March 9, 2007

    Congress should launch a full investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in leaking the name of an undercover CIA officer, Valerie Plame Wilson, to the media in violation of federal law. That conclusion follows from...

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  • On a mission for justice: School of the Americas Watch travels to Colombia and Panama

    On a mission for justice: School of the Americas Watch travels to Colombia and Panama

    March 9, 2007

    On return from our SOA Watch delegation to Colombia and Panama, I traveled by bus to Caracas with my son, Pachi. I took advantage of the long ride to sift through my notes from the trip....

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  • If Sago happened today, loved ones would still die

    If Sago happened today, loved ones would still die

    March 9, 2007

    “Coal is more important than life.” That is how Pam Campbell, sister-in-law of miner Marty Bennett who died inside Sago Mine, sums up over a year of government and coal corporation stalls, speeches, secrecy and frustration....

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    March 9, 2007

    CHICAGO: Hospital workers demand right to organize “If they feel they can hang up on a congresswoman, just imagine what they think they can do to their workers,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky told over 1,000 nurses, housekeepers...

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