NATIONAL CLIPS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Thousands celebrate at Juneteenth festival SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Iraq war veteran walks for peace HAZELTON, Pa.: Anti-immigrant rally turns uglier COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: Right-wing groups have falling out
Venezuelas ambassador responds to Speaker Pelosi on RCTV
I am writing in the opportunity to respond to your May 30 statement on Venezuela’s decision not to renew the broadcast license of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV).

Mercenaries cast dark shadows on U.S. democracy
When years ago Consolidation Coal, Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Steel created their own private armies, including Pinkertons, to keep the word “profits” always followed by the verb “skyrocketing,” and to keep workers under their control and the union out, no one dreamed that in the 21st century the privatization of the U.S. military would be on the political agenda.
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WEST POINT, N.Y.: Hundreds protest Iraq war, Cheney AMHERST, Mass.: Former Bush aide booed at graduation OBERLIN, Ohio: City Council calls for impeachment BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Medicaid slashed on phony pretext

