WWS - News

New Today -- 04 August 2009

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Perspective

CIA director issues a warning to Congress

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CIA Director Leon Panetta used a Washington Post opinion column Sunday to warn Congress against pursuing any investigation into the crimes carried out by the agency under the Bush administration.

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News & Analysis

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As US, NATO causalities mount
Pentagon to press for more troops in Afghan war

After the deadliest month since the Afghan war began, US military commanders are planning to press for more troops in order to mount a counterinsurgency campaign in the Central Asian country.

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Sri Lankan government stalls on release of Tamil detainees

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Britain: National Health Service hospital faces privatisation

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Australia: Labor conference endorses war and "sacrifice"

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Australian unions endorse Labor's draconian industrial relations laws

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German unions sell out childcare staff

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Los Angeles: immigrant workers protest layoffs, repression

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History

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Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009
Part one

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Socialist Equality Party

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Vote for D'Artagnan Collier, SEP Candidate for Detroit Mayor

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Interview with SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D'Artagnan Collier
How I became a socialist

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Sri Lanka: ISSE-SEP meeting in Colombo on Karl Marx and Charles Darwin

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