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By Saul Landau In April, the Army transferred Private Bradley Manning from a Quantico, Virginia, solitary confinement cell to the federal prison at Leavenworth Kansas. At Quantico,…
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By Ralph Nader From Bloomberg.net The stars are aligned for Barack Obama’s re-election in November 2012. He won’t join Jimmy Carter to be the second Democrat in 120 years to lose a…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com From the 1920s to the 1980s, Florida was notorious for unplanned, environmentally destructive, socially pernicious, and even fraudulent land use…
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By David Swanson From WarIsACrime.org The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had…
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By Bill Press Which of the following statements is true? (1) There is no such thing as global warming. (2) September 11 was an inside job, engineered by George Bush and Dick Cheney.…
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By Kyle Munzenrieder From Miami New Times The U.S. government spends millions of dollars every year transmitting news (or something like it) to Cuba through Radio y Televisión Martí's…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The killing of Osama bin Laden is being celebrated by the US media and government officials who spin it as one of the most important events since 11…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican daily La Jornada “This is change?” asks a box of mints with the image of Barack Obama. They are called “dissappoint-mints” and are made by the…
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By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progreso-weekly.com “I’ve done my job and it’s time to move on. I’ve done a good job and most of the FTA concerns, I believe, have been satisfied.” This…
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By Max J. Castro My dictionary defines chump as a silly or stupid person, a blockhead. Donald Trump, the real estate magnate and star of the television series “The Apprentice,” has…
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