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Using lies about the New Deal to block whats needed today

March 14, 2009 By Lou Incognito

Opponents, mainly Republicans, are using lies about the New Deal to ensure that Obama’s stimulus program does not work properly.

Republican racism runs rampant

March 13, 2009

Recently the pro-Republican, Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post ran a scurrilous racist cartoon comparing Obama to the Connecticut chimpanzee that was shot dead by the police. The headline read, “Who’s going to write the stimulus package...

Taking Employee Free Choice Act to the streets, media

March 13, 2009

CLEVELAND — Dozens of activists committed to workplace fairness and economic recovery gathered here March 7 for a three-hour speakers training session to promote the Employee Free Choice Act. The event, held at Trinity Cathedral, brought...

Veterans react to Iraq pullout plan: A war that should never have been fought

March 13, 2009

While they see President Obama’s 18-month timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq as a necessary first step to change, veterans’ organizations say Iraq and Afghanistan urgently need diplomacy and development, not lingering deployments or troop...

Jobs report worst since Great Depression

March 13, 2009

The United States is now facing levels of joblessness comparable to those of the Great Depression. Labor Department data released this month shows in February, employers eliminated 651,000 jobs, the third month in a row that...