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The Green Party's Goal - Ensuring that Republicans Take Over the Senate |
by Joe Conason, quoted
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02 Jul 2002
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Ralph Nader can talk out of either side of his mouth about the consequences
of his Green Party presidential candidacy and third-party spoiler strategies. What he says at
any moment depends on whether he is avoiding blame for Republican advances or promoting
himself and his followers as the inexorable progressive vanguard. |
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Jose Solis Jordan is being detained incomunicado at Atlanta USP |
by repost
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08 Jun 2002
Modified: 08 Jul 2002 |
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Dr. Jose Solis Jordan is a graduate of the University of Illinois, former resident in our community, and a loyal comrade to many of us. |
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The Credibility of Market Ideology |
by Seth Sandronsky
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07 Jul 2002
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History didn’t end with the fall of the former Soviet Union and the triumph of Western "free markets." In the short-term, market ideology will change in an attempt to cope with its crises. |
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Illinois Labor Hour Headlines - July 6, 2002 |
by Michael Feltes
mfeltes (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified) |
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06 Jul 2002
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Headlines from the Illinois Labor Hour, broadcast at 11 AM on WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign, IL. 21,000 Municpal Workers Strike City of Toronto, Illinois Teacher Elected President of NEA, Springfield Municipal Insurance Fund Close To Bankruptcy, UAW Workers Laid Off At Decatur Caterpillar, European Court of Human Rights Defends British Unions, Statue of Margaret Thatcher Beheaded |
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You Can't Smell the Flowers at 30,000 Feet |
by Brandon Keim
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05 Jul 2002
Modified: 06 Jul 2002 |
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Traveling upon an airplane, it as if nothing existed between the points of departure and arrival. Everything beneath is bypassed. This is an unconscious reflection of that basic intention of modern consumerism: the reduction of distance by making all places the same. Planes remove us from the world, hiding both the beauty and ugliness of reality. On a train, one at least glimpses the world outside: the homes, the people, the land. |
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Chile's Pinochet Quits Senate After Verdict |
by Louise Egan
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05 Jul 2002
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SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet ( news - web sites) resigned on Thursday as lifetime senator, a post he held onto despite a four-year absence from Congress while fighting a series of legal battles against human rights allegations. |
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