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The Spark Newspaper
We publish a newspaper every two weeks titled The Spark.
Issue no. 737 — October 25 - November 8, 2004
Editorial
Editorial: Get ready – both parties are preparing to attack us after November 2
Pages 2-3
Flu vaccine: Hostage to the "standards" of profitability
Corporations in California: Most don't pay state income tax
Another tax break for corporations – passed by both parties
Canada: Why import only the drugs?
Los Angeles public hospitals: The corporate hit men have arrived
The flu vaccine crisis: An inevitable product of capitalism
Baltimore: Anger in city schools
Pages 4-5
Using AIDS as a pretext to give billions to Northrop
Haiti: The rule of armed gangs
Germany: The response of Opel workers to layoffs
Iraq: The rising insurgency and gathering clouds of a massive U.S. attack against Iraqi people
Pages 6-7
Amtrak lets freight companies off the hook – taxpayers pay
Kmart's CEO: Big rewards for a job well done
Cooking the books to make profit-sharing evaporate
Page 8
Be all you can be – without health care!
Government admits what vets said for 13 years: Gulf War Syndrome is real
Refusing an order, 19 soldiers throw a spotlight on the Army