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Stakes Are High In IMF-Argentina Negotiations |
by Mark Weisbrot
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13 Aug 2003
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The current agreement expires at the end of this month, and Argentina owes more than $6 billion to the official creditors by the end of the year. The Fund could use the threat of default on these payments to force an unsustainable settlement on the $76 billion of defaulted debt owed to private creditors.
This would be especially dangerous. If Argentina agrees to pay too much of the defaulted debt, it could be condemned to an indefinite period of austerity and stagnation -- limping along from one crisis to the next, while bondholders fret whether the government can continuously punish its citizens enough to extract increasing government budget surpluses. |
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Public Interest Groups Criticize Handling Of Recent Nuclear Waste Shipment From Western New York To Idaho - Secret Nuclear Shipment Endangered Local Communities |
by Public Citizen
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12 Aug 2003
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This shipment was originally scheduled to pass through Champaign County on the Norfolk Southern Railroad, passing through Homer, Philo, and Tolono. It is unknown at this time whether this was the actual route. Anyone who believs they sighted the train should feel free to post news about it here. |
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Why Does The Bush Administration Hate Our Troops? |
by Nathan Newman
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12 Aug 2003
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The problem is that it's not the high-tech army taking care of those living conditions, but private industry on contract. For over a decade, the military has been shifting its supply and support personnel into combat jobs and hiring defense contractors to do the rest. And the process has accelerated under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. |
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GOP Breaking Up Over Gay Marriages? |
by Ilya Beylin
i_beylin (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
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12 Aug 2003
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There's evidence of friction at all levels of the party. Most prominently, between Bush and Dick Cheney, whose own daughter is gay. Meanwhile Howard Dean was governor of Vermont in April of 2000, when the state became the first to recognize single sex unions. |
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After 10 Years, Zapatistas Bid Farewell To Arms, Turning Their Struggle From Revolution To Politics |
by Elizabeth Mistry
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12 Aug 2003
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The weekend's meeting in the town of Oventic was the first high-profile Zapatista gathering since the failed march to Mexico City. Commandante Marcos, absent because of "stomach problems", sent a taped message in which he said that it was important for the Zapatista communities to reassert their demands for autonomy. |
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Turn Your Radio On - The Unions' Answer To Right-Wing Static |
by Thom Hartmann
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11 Aug 2003
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Enter liberal talk radio. Increasingly, stations are realizing that the biggest difference between conservative and liberal talk is that conservative talk is well distributed and market-saturated, while liberal talk is virgin territory brimming with possibilities for any station willing to invest the time it takes to build an audience base. |
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Iran-Contra, Amplified |
by Jim Lobe
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11 Aug 2003
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"I think it's time for a serious investigation [of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith's office]..." |
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