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Bush administration suffers legal defeat in Salah, Ashqar case
On Feb. 1, 2007, the Bush administration suffered another setback in its racist campaign against Arabs and Palestinians in the…
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Billions face food, water shortage due to capitalist degradation
Millions and even billions of people will face food and water scarcities in the coming years if the current trend…
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Mistrial declared in Lt. Watada war resister case
On Mon. Feb. 5, over 1,000 anti-war activists came to Ft. Lewis, Wash., to support Lt. Ehren Watada on the…
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ExxonMobil posts highest profits ever
U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil posted $39.5 billion in profits for the year 2006. This is about $108 million a day…
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Historic legal victory in Los Angeles 8 case
The writer is a member of the Committee for Justice for the LA8. On Jan. 30, the U.S. government suffered…
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Bush’s health plan: Higher taxes and corporate welfare
Forty-seven million people in the United States do not have healthcare coverage—an increase of eight million people from a decade…
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What’s wrong with Schwarzenegger’s healthcare proposal?
The writer is a Registered Nurse in Los Angeles, California. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest foray into public policy includes…
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Change the system, not the climate!
This article first appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of Australia's Green Left Weekly. Al Gore’s film "An Inconvenient Truth"…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal legal update
Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982 on false charges of shooting a Philadelphia cop.…
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What is behind the expansion of U.S. prisons?
The police killings of New York 23-year-old Sean Bell in a hail of 50 shots on Nov. 25 and of…
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