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More Workers Killed in Iraq

December 23, 2004
More Workers Killed in Iraq

More workers were killed in Iraq today, with dozens more reported killed and injured earlier in the week. The dead Iraqi workers were evidently attempting to get along with their lives. Unwanted in the global market, they mistakenly came into conflict with profits, which are always most important. American workers were also killed in...
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Grinch of the Year?

December 20, 2004

The AFL-CIO’s Jobs With Justice organization has announced its annual Grinch of the Year contest. We can admit that these corporations are pretty bad as employers go. However, we feel that it does no service to fail to point out that the problems of bad employers will not go away if you stop the...
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Pseudo-Socialist Organization

December 19, 2004

The following is a posting from the Anarchist Infoshop website. It deals with the financial set-up of the Trotskyist International Socialist Organization (ISO). We feel it is important that radicals understand why the backroom financial dealings within pseudo-socialist organizations such as the International Socialist Organization (ISO) as anti-working class. Real working class organizations run...
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Pope Condemns Same Sex Union as Attack on Society

December 19, 2004

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope John Paul on Saturday condemned same sex marriage as an attack on the fabric of society and called on Catholics to combat what he said was aggressive attempt to legally undermine the family.“Attacks on marriage and the family, from an ideological and legal aspect, are becoming stronger and more...
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Bombing Evidence Erased

December 14, 2004

Interesting tidbit from Empire Notes The New York Times reports that, according to Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero, before leaving office in April the Aznar administration erased all records related to the Madrid bombings: “There was not a single paper, not a single piece of data in computer form or on paper, absolutely nothing...
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US Dollar’s Decline

December 14, 2004

While it’s not being commonly discussed, the decline of the US dollar compared to other currencies is starting to alarm journalists and other pundits. For example What’s the problem? Simply, if the US dollar declines against other currencies, it will become harder for Americans to buy foreign products- such as all the Chinese made...
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New air strikes on Fallujah

December 13, 2004

US Air Force planes bombed the newly freed city of Fullujah today. The bombings were launched after 8 Marines died in a Iraqi insurgency attack. The Fallujah insurgency, if you remember correctly, was destroyed last month.   US Military spokespeople gave no estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths or causualties caused by US bombing. That’s...
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Pinochet indicted

December 13, 2004
Pinochet indicted

Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, has been indicted today on human rights “abuses”, including kidnapping of 9 leftists and the murder of one. According to the Guardian newspaper this is the second attempt to put Pinochet in prison: The first attempt to put Pinochet on trial in Chile in 2001 involved charges relating...
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The Peterson Case: The Death Penalty (Again)

December 13, 2004

So Scott Peterson will be executed for the murder of his wife and unborn child. Another family (Scott’s) will be victims of an another untimely death- this time done in your and my name. Just because he is a murderer doesn’t mean he is not a son, brother, friend and human. Another mother will...
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Shot In Their Beds…

December 12, 2004

A series of photos from Iraq of dead working people, most shot dead in their beds by US forces. One exception is of a young boy clutching a white flag. As always, wars for “freedom” are not about liberating working people like these victims, it is for the freedom to exploit markets effectively. Images...
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