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CPUSA, 04/13/2007
Polls continue to confirm a key part of the 2006 election results: a growing majority wants U.S. troops out of Iraq according to an agreed-upon timetable. People no longer believe our presence there serves any good purpose.
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Dave Zirin, 04/13/2007
"Discussion" is an awfully antiseptic word what went down. Make no mistake: CBS's Moonves and the bigwigs at MSNBC, who Wednesday pulled the plug on Imus's TV show, were met with an upsurge inside their own ranks.
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David Swanson, 04/13/2007
Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq War to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge.
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Joel Wendland, 04/12/2007
At least 45 U.S. service members have been killed in Iraq in the first 11 days of April alone, making it on pace to be one of the most deadly months of the war for U.S. troops. Dozens have been injured.
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David Swanson, 04/12/2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that humans are causing global climate chaos and that the effects are going to be… Well, let's just say that only John McCain will find them pleasant.
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FAIR, 04/12/2007
As the Post put it: "But those who bask in the glow of his radio show ought to consider whether they should continue doing so. After all, you're judged by the company you keep."
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Political Affairs, 04/11/2007
Sen. Feingold introduces a bill to end military involvement in Iraq; Verizon workers demand a union; Some congressional leaders want new relations with Cuba; Union leaders criticize guest worker immigration reform plans; and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act sees new light in Congress.
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Joel Wendland, 04/11/2007
After four years of a war that has cost the lives of more than 3,290 US service members, 40 in the first ten days of this month alone, White Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino and the Bush administration can't understand why the American people are fed up and are demanding a new direction on Iraq policy.
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Marilyn Bechtel, 04/06/2007
Heading the agenda as members of the Communist Party’s national committee gathered here March 24-25 were new developments in the people’s movements to end the Iraq war, win labor and immigrant rights, gain health care for all and uphold democracy.
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Prensa Latina, 04/04/2007
The party of President George W. Bush won today a new candidate to the White House when Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo, of known xenophobic tendencies, confirmed he would be running for office.
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Matthew Cardinale, 04/02/2007
US Rep. Lynn Woolsey’s (D-CA) amendment to the US House Fiscal Year 2008 Budget received 81 yes votes on March 29, 2007, a big step forward for the proposal, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. US Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and Hank Johnson (D-GA) joined Woolsey and 78 others in voting “aye.”
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Political Affairs, 03/31/2007
Giuliani pronounces the battle between the great ideas of our epoch as those between Roosevelt and Reagan. He chooses to be an instrument for destroying the advances of the New Deal.
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Faisal Kutty, 03/21/2007
As the Canadian government forges ahead with its cleverly named Passenger Protect Program, the timing could not be better to seriously reconsider what is for all intents and purposes a no-fly list.
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People's Voice, 03/21/2007
Thousands of angry demonstrators took to the streets of Afghanistan earlier this month, shouting "death to America" and "death to Karzai" after US forces killed and wounded dozens of civilians in Nangarhar province.
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Rose Ana Duenas, 03/21/2007
The U.S. State Department released its "Country Reports on Human Rights" in Washington D.C. on March 6 with a flurry of press conferences and photo ops starring Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Matthew Cardinale, 03/16/2007
At least four Members of US Congress and four US Senators today raised concerns about a breaking report in the National Journal that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have known he was going to be negatively implicated in a review at the US Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) when he advised President Bush regarding the review.
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Thomas Riggins, 03/16/2007
According to today’s New York Times Hillary Clinton has decided to keep American troops in Iraq should she become the next president She is quoted in an article by Michael Gordon and Patrick Healy.
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Sherwood Ross, 03/11/2007
What’s left of what passes for law in America is eroding rapidly. The latest scandal in Totalitarianville is the admission by Robert S. Mueller III March 9th his FBI had improperly used the Patriot Act to spy on individuals and businesses.
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Circles Robinson, 03/10/2007
Doing the right thing can be costly, but in the end one can at least sleep at night. Ask Spc. Agustin Aguayo, 35, a U.S. citizen born in Guadalajara, Mexico, who was just sentenced by a US military court in Wurzburg, Germany.
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Matthew Cardinale, 03/08/2007
US Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) has just become the 44th total cosponsor of S. 2, the bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in 10 years.
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