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Jordan Flaherty
Huffington Post
Poet Sunni Patterson is one of New Orleans' most beloved artists. She has performed in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US, and frequently appears on television and radio, from Democracy Now to Def Poetry Jam. When she performs her poems in local venues, half the crowd recites the... » read this article
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Editor
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A convicted triple murderer in a high-profile death row case had his execution date thrown out Wednesday when the governor of Ohio commuted his sentence to life in prison due to unanswered questions in the case.
The move by Governor Ted Strickland comes two weeks after a parole... » read this article
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Videotaped News Report
Press TV
August 27, 2010 - The US is attempting to extradite a 9/11 FEMA Videographer who says that the September 11 bombings of the Twin Towers (9/11) are an inside job.... » read this article
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Martin Chulov in Baghdad
The Guardian/UK
After seven years and $53bn of US reconstruction money, Baghdad still relies on slabs of ice to keep cool.On a pot-holed backstreet in eastern Baghdad, Saad Turki is
sweltering under a corrugated tin roof, manning a giant pulley. The
grime of yet another merciless summer day has stained his shirt... » read this article
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Kate Randall
WSWS
1 September 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released findings Monday on inspections carried out in late August of the facilities of two egg companies at the center of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened thousands in the US in recent months. The companies have issued recalls of more... » read this article
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Stefan Steinberg
WSWS
31 August 2010
The French government is seeking to win support from official European institutions for its racist policy of rounding up and deporting members of the Roma community.
At a meeting of ambassadors held at the Hotel Matignon last week, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced that he had... » read this article
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Shannon Jones
WSWS
The “Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace” march held in Detroit August 28, had nothing to do with rebuilding the devastated city, creating jobs, or achieving peace.
The event, called by UAW President Bob King and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, was little more than a campaign rally for the Democratic... » read this article
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James Suggett
Venezuela Analysis
“We live in paradise. Look, the people are very tranquil, the kids are growing, and we cultivate food without contamination because we know how to produce natural fertilizer from worms. And now, with solar electricity, it’s like a dream,” said the Venezuelan farmer Ramón Dávila with a smile, his solid... » read this article
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Editor/Blogger
My Budget 360
Preliminary Census data is now coming out showing the effects of the recession on a macro scale. The 2008 Census figures don’t highlight the deep capital loss that was experienced by middle class families over the last two years. We now have data showing how deep the recession has gotten. ... » read this article
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Jerry Lanson
Common Dreams
Once again, what we don't know about the erosion of rights in this country can be as bad as what we do
While Americans debate and litigate the Arizona law authorizing search and seizure of anyone police "reasonably suspect" to be an illegal immigrant, U.S. immigration officials on trains and... » read this article
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Nlna Bernstein
NYT
August 29, 2010
ROCHESTER — The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens... » read this article
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Katharina Wied
WSWS
28 August 2010
A major environmental scandal has featured in the German media since the spring of this year. In Dortmund transformers were dismantled and recycled by the company Envio Recycling GmbH & Co. The recycling process resulted in setting free highly poisonous PCB chemicals in what amounts to a... » read this article
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