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Political shadow of the farm bill

August 8, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

As the new Farm Bill has been passed by Congress and is expected to be approved by President Bush, The Wall Street Journal is voicing its disapproval. It proclaims: “All that rooting, snooting noise you hear...

Castro hails U.S. House vote to ease blockade

August 2, 2002 By Susan Webb

In his July 26 speech marking the 49th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, that launched the Cuban revolution, Cuban president Fidel Castro hailed the U.S. House of Representatives’ overwhelming approval of measures easing...

Protests against the Gaza City bombing

August 2, 2002

Now, a week after the Israeli Gaza City air-terror strike, after protests and deliberations, everybody in Israel agrees: the hurdling of a one-ton explosive bomb into the midst of a densely populated urban area with the...

Good times never been so good

August 2, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

First the steel industry, the dinosaurs, collapsed – 34 corporations in almost as many months. But that was no big deal – they were ancient history.

The post-bubble economy: A better world

August 2, 2002 By Mark Weisbrot

Across the country, it is finally sinking in. There really was a bubble in the stock market, and it has now burst. This is not like Tiger Woods having a bad day at the British Open....