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US: Deep problems remain for US economy
"We are in the midst so far of a jobless recovery and a profitless recovery. That is a double whammy on financial markets.", Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo.
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US: Bush and the Nov 2002 elections
The Teflon is finally wearing off President George W. Bush. After getting elected through a legal coup, and diminished popularity, the atrocity of 9/11 sent the Bush administration’s ratings into the stratosphere as the mass […]
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US: Scandal shakes catholic church
The revelations about the sexual abuse of children in the U.S. Catholic Church have become an enormous issue for the nation’s 64 million Roman Catholics, and for society as a whole. When the scandal first […]
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US: Anti capitalist protest New York
From January 31st through February 4th, workers, youth, environmentalists, and an assortment of activists welcomed the corporate elites of the World Economic Forum to New York City, with rousing protests of over 10,000 people.
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US: Anti capitalist protest Washington
40,000-75,000 protested in Washington DC on April 20th against Bush’s "War on Terrorism" and its possible extension to Iraq, US aid to Colombia, the School of the Americas, and the annual meeting of the IMF […]
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May Day: Workers, youth and immigrants march together on May Day
Reports from US and Israel
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May Day: US and Israel – Workers, youth and immigrants march together
Boston’s 2002 May Day rally was called by the local AFL/CIO together with immigrant organisations in support of immigrant rights and legalisation of immigrants. AFL-CIO leader Linda Chavez-Thompson and local immigrant and union leaders spoke. […]
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US: September 11 – End the cycle of terrorism
The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC Tuesday September 11 were a horrific tragedy. Socialist Alternative sends all those who lost loved ones and friends and all of those injured its deepest […]
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US: September 11 – Eyewitness comments from New York
I was out in the street in Greenwich Village and I saw part of the first World Trade Centre Towers collapse.