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May 21 – May 27, 2007 articles
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Matthew Cardinale, 05/27/2007
Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) Whistleblower Anthony Bostic believes he was fired this Monday in retaliation for his documented investigation into millions of dollars total in apparent AHA underpayments to thousands of relocated families in public housing.
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Earth Talk, 05/27/2007
Word of the White House censoring federal climate scientists on global warming began leaking out to the press early in George W. Bush’s first term in office, but only in the last few years have a few federal employees themselves been willing to go on record with such accusations.
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FAIR, 05/27/2007
The story is framed in U.S. news media as a simple matter of censorship: Prominent Venezuelan TV station RCTV is being silenced by the authoritarian government of President Hugo Chávez, who is punishing the station for its political criticism of his government.
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Chris Stevenson, 05/25/2007
Why Bush Protects one and Prosecutes the other.
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Norman Markowitz, 05/25/2007
The Pope has created a new international flap that deserves careful notice, because it tells us something important about the mindset of the man who wields institutional power over hundreds of millions of the Roman Catholic faithful.
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Ramzy Baroud, 05/25/2007
I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched in its depth and meaning.
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Jim Miles, 05/25/2007
This is a wonderfully refreshing examination of Canada’s role, current and historic, as supporter of and participant in the American Empire.
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Tim Wheeler, 05/25/2007
By next fall President Bush “may find himself standing alone” on his Iraq war policy. That was the warning from Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, commenting on Bush’s White House meeting with 11 Republican House members, May 10, in which they bluntly warned him that time is running out on the U.S. military role in Iraq.
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Africa Action, 05/25/2007
Reports from the UN Mission in Sudan indicated that new clashes between government and rebel forces erupted in North Darfur over the past weekend.
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CP of Israel, 05/25/2007
The globalization of capital and the rapid growth of modern industry, technology, information systems and media have been exploited by capital in an attempt to concentrate the control of resources, capital and wage labor.
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Council On Hemispheric Affairs, 05/25/2007
The recent politicized dismissal of the indictment against Luis Posada Carriles by federal judge Kathleen Cardone has brought the historically thorny relationship between the U.S. and Cuba once again to the forefront of the news.
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Thomas Riggins, 05/24/2007
Why is it so difficult to build a Marxist mass movement in the US? There are Marxist movements of considerable size, in comparison to the US, both in many Third World nations and in countries more advanced than the US.
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Jeff Mukadi, 05/24/2007
“A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” so declares the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which constitutes the basis of gun policy in this country.
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Jonathan Springston, 05/24/2007
A progressive think tank, The Center for American Progress (CAP), released a report on April 25, 2007, outlining a strategy to cut poverty in half in the United States in 10 years.
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Chris Stevenson, 05/24/2007
It's becoming clear to me now that Senator Barack Obama wasn't really chosen by White America, otherwise – as previously I stated – he wouldn't need Secret Service protection.
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Lawrence Albright, 05/23/2007
When a noted or celebrated musician passes away, it is perhaps inevitable that their final recording will always be given consideration for reasons beyond the merits of the work.
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Joel Wendland, 05/23/2007
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards just endorsed a bill pending before Oregon's state legislature that would enable state employees to win the right to union representation and collective bargaining by having a majority in a workplace sign a membership card or a petition for it.
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Jalal Alavi, 05/23/2007
The George W. Bush administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to meet on May 28 for talks surrounding Iraq’s stability.
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Bob Briton, 05/23/2007
Since coming to power in 1996, the Howard Government has increased spending on the military by 46 per cent in real terms.
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Fidel Castro, 05/23/2007
The press dispatches bring the news; it belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades.
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