Vol. 74/No. 1      January 4, 2010

News articles

• U.S. gov’t pushes to expand Pakistan war
  Aerial drones kill more than 560 in 2009
• German rulers plan new cuts to social wage
• Cops charged of cover-up in death of immigrant
• Bay Area meeting demands release of 3 death row inmates
• Solomons students overcome block to medical study in Cuba
• Salute fighting workers behind bars
• Homelessness on rise as layoffs, wage cuts mount
• Miami store features coming book on Malcolm X (photo box)
• Quebec meat packers dig in for long strike
• Protests condemn ban on Kurdish party in Turkey
• Police use Facebook and Twitter to spy, entrap
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Lessons from the 1925-27 revolution in China