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"Check Out, Don't Check In": Unite Here Workers Boycott Embassy Suites
Danielle P. Williams, Philadelphia Student Union | 08-18 Unite Here workers are orchestrating a boycott against having their jobs and rights revoked by Embassy Suites.
Forging the Case for War: `Imminent' threats should be a belli laugh
Dave Lindorff | 08-17 Amid all the talk about Bush/Cheney administration conspiracies to forge documents or engage in “false flag” tactics in order to “get the war on” against Iraq, and about similar current efforts to get a new war going against Iran, lost has been the fact that...
US and Poland ratchet up tension further
Rich Gardner | 08-15 In the aftermath of the South Ossetia war, US and Poland ratchet up tensions still further.(3)
Industrial Revolutions Hip Hop benefit at The Rotunda, Aug 17
The Defenestrator | 08-14 In solidarity with the independent unionists of SUTEIVP in Potosi Mexico, Philadelphia Jobs With Justice, the Mexico Solidarity Group and Temple Student Labor Action Project present a hip hop benefit.
One year after Jena tree was cut, little progress has been made
David A. Love | 08-08 Some 3,500 blacks were lynched in this country between 1882 and 1968. This should not be the stuff of pranks or cranks.

News Briefs

Loserville: Obama Is Channeling Kerry and Gore
Dave Lindorff | 08-21

There has clearly been a decision made in the Obama campaign to soft-pedal liberal positions and to make Obama appear “safe” and uncontroversial. The result has been his precipitous slide in the polls.
Aggression Rights and Wrongs: Vietnam in Cambodia; the United States in Iraq
Edward S. Herman | 08-17

A recent book by Michael Vickery, "Cambodia: A Political Survey," dramatizes once again the fantastic double standard that operates in cases of cross-border attacks by the weak, and U.S. targets, and the strong, especially the United States.
Tragedy at Powelton
Melanie R. Holmes, The Philadelphia Tribune | 08-14

Philadelphia police claim it was murder. Back to nature group MOVE contends it was friendly fire. Judge Edwin S. Malmed said he hadn’t the faintest idea.
Targeting Immigrants - The Largest Ever US ICE Raid
Stephen Lendman | 08-12

Police state tactics intensify against immigrant workers.
Fight for survival or the fight of the chickenhawks?
Rich Gardner | 08-12

What IS Bill Kristol trying to say? Is the US engaged in a fight for survival or in a not-so-important struggle? (5)

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