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PWW/Mundo forum hosts Parenti

November 7, 2003 By Kelly McConnell And Jay Johnson

LOS ANGELES – The war in Iraq, like conflicts in which the United States has been engaged for more than a century, is not about spreading democracy but global corporate expansionism, Michael Parenti told a standing-room...

Blame profits, not workers, for high health costs

November 7, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The issue of corporate greed in health care is beginning to make its way into the mass media, thanks in good part to the blatant price-gouging of the pharmaceutical companies.

Arizona: Grassroots can beat big bucks

November 7, 2003

TUCSON, Ariz. – It is going to take a massive grassroots effort to vanquish the millions and millions of dollars flooding the coffers of the Bush campaign from corporate America, the defense industry, the prison industry,...

National Clips

November 7, 2003

MACON, Ga.: Tobacco merger to destroy 14,000 jobs It was not the famous “tobacco settlement” where cigarette corporations are paying billions of dollars to states to cover smoking-related health care costs that forced the closure of...

Canadian health care expert on tour

November 7, 2003

Doug Allan, a Toronto-based trade union health care researcher and health coalition organizer, will be speaking on “Lessons from Canada’s Public Health Care System” in a series of three events in the eastern United States this...