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Government suffers Liberty City 7 setback, moves for retrial
After a two-month trial and nine days of deliberations, a Miami jury acquitted one of the Liberty City 7, Lyglenson…
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D.C. government to lay off workers, close 23 public schools
In January 2007, Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty won an overwhelming electoral victory in large part due to his…
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Who is really to blame for steroid use in baseball?
On Dec. 13, former Sen. George Mitchell released with great fanfare his highly anticipated report on steroid use in Major…
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Hidden Iraq casualties and Pentagon lies
The U.S. imperialists and their media mouthpieces are using a new tactic to make the Iraq occupation more palatable. Citing…
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California town recalls pro-Blackwater officials
Residents of Potrero, Calif., won a symbolic victory in their struggle against Blackwater’s plans to build a training camp just…
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New Orleans workers fight housing demolitions
More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans thousands of the city’s working-class residents are facing another disaster…
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Foreclosures strike Black and Latino communities hardest
The housing crisis has the potential to set off a chain of events to increase the overall rate of unemployment,…
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Is ‘dollar hegemony’ coming to an end?
Today’s world monetary system is based on the "dollar standard," also known as dollar hegemony. This is the unstable system…
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New Jersey abolishes racist death penalty
On Dec. 13, the New Jersey state legislature voted to abolish the death penalty. In a 44-36 vote, it was…
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Will the Bali agreement halt global warming?
On Dec. 15, countries at the U.N.-sponsored Bali conference on climate change reached an agreement to start a two-year period…
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