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  • Wal-Mart campaign tops UFCW agenda

    Wal-Mart campaign tops UFCW agenda

    August 15, 2003

    Organizing Wal-Mart, dealing with the crisis in U.S. health care, and defeating George Bush in 2004 were recurring themes in the international convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) held in San Francisco...

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  • The Office of Tax Propaganda

    The Office of Tax Propaganda

    August 15, 2003 By Art Perlo

    The honesty-impaired Bush administration does not limit its deception to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When it comes to taxes, the spin starts when they call their program the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Act...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    August 15, 2003

    Iraq: Protest of fuel & power shortages Protests continued early this week in Basra, the country’s largest city, and the surrounding area against prolonged shortages of electricity and gasoline that are making life miserable in the...

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  • Bushs Senegal visit uncensored

    Bushs Senegal visit uncensored

    August 15, 2003

    The following is an abridged e-mail sent by a Senegalese woman and health activist to friends. It gives an uncensored view of George W. Bush’s Africa visit. DAKAR, Senegal – [Bush’s] visit has been such an...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    August 15, 2003

    ANNISTON, Ala.:‘Stop burning of chemical weapons’ Despite years of protests and court action by residents, the U.S. Army began burning chemical weapons along one of the most densely populated sections of the Atlanta to Birmingham corridor...

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