EDITORIAL: Scoundrel time
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee May 15 that he, as well as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and other senior Justice Department officials, threatened to resign en masse in 2004 to protest the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program which they viewed as illegal and unconstitutional.
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PITTSBURGH: Flowers of peace for Mother’s Day LAS VEGAS: Clergy rally to bring the troops home ST. PAUL, Minn.: 3M pays $13 million for cleanup MARION, Ala.: Trooper indicted for 1965 shooting of civil rights activist
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Life and death Name correction Just say ‘no’ to monarchy Liked ‘China Study’ article Germany not quite tops From one gun owner to another
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Terrorist group targets Latinos WASHINGTON: Impeach Cheney, say lawmakers JUNEAU, Alaska: Oil company buys tax breaks
Canada steelworkers occupy plant
When 30 Canadian steelworkers who had taken over their plant on May 3 looked out the windows, they saw hundreds of supporters cheering them on.
Social justice at stake in Mumia Abu-Jamal case
Worldwide, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row for 25 years now, are hopeful that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will grant him a new trial on May 17.
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Greetings from France Allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices Responses to our weekly e-mail blasts Electronic Marx
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Don’t mourn, organize Health care road When labor smiles Victims and heroes The only escalation is troop deaths
EDITORIAL: May Day
Army Sgt. Irving Taffler, stationed at a big American base in Italy after World War II, was ordered by his colonel to go out and hire 200 Italians to staff the facility. Taffler, a proud member of the Communist Party USA, went to the local Italian party office and put out the word. A week later the base was staffed by 200 Communists and supporters.
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ORONO, Maine: Earth Day zooms in on global warming ASHBURN, Ga.: High school holds first integrated prom ORLANDO, Fla.: Man arrested for feeding the hungry
