Vol. 72/No. 32      August 18, 2008

News articles

• California workers protest layoffs, cuts
  Governor orders wages slashed to $6.55
• White House broadens powers of spy director
• U.S. denies visa for wife of Cuban 5 prisoner
• Iowa socialist ballot drive goes over top in one week
• Shipyard workers in Greece strike for job safety
• Exhibit explores African slavery and rebellion in Mexico
• Unemployment at highest level in more than 3 years
• San Francisco protesters oppose Minutemen (photo box)
• Verizon workers demand better wages, pensions, and benefits
• Tensions between India and Pakistan heat up
• Real wages decline amid rising ‘productivity’
• Green Party nominates McKinney for president
• On the Picket Line
• Maryland state police spied on groups against war, death penalty
• Pentagon document projects ‘Long War’
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Canada to send 200 more troops to Afghanistan
• Medical students graduate in Equatorial Guinea (photo box)
• U.S. military napalmed civilians in Korean War
• Democracy and the fight to end capitalist exploitation
• Letters