Last Updated: May 7, 2001
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Issue no. 656
Editorial
Editorial: Big Oil DEMANDS a bigger SUPPLY of profit!
Pages 2-3
California: PG&E, a big utility, declares bankruptcy. What are they really up to?
Pages 4-5
Kerrey did in Viet Nam what U.S. imperialism does everywhere
Pollution and the greenhouse effect: The hypocrisy of the Big Powers
The slave children of Africa: Capitalist exploitation in all its cruelty
The U.S. continues to bomb Vieques, Puerto Rico
Pages 6-7
Baltimore city housing: Even the feds won't buy it
Boeing shakes down states for subsidies
Washington state workers walk out
Birmingham, Alabama: Case against 1963 church bomber exposes FBI protection of him and KKK
Just an ordinary guy!
May 7, 2001
The Russian space program is really in a financial pinch these days, and it's selling rides. Dennis Tito, who called himself just an "ordinary guy," went up with two Russian cosmonauts in the Soyuz to the International Space Station on April 28. The price of his ticket –a mere 20 million dollars.
What a great idea! Here's a better one: Please, NASA and Soyuz, blast all the millionaires and billionaires into outer space. And leave them there!