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By Anya Landau French From the Huffington Post Let's start with the obvious. With the Republican takeover of Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes the new Chairwoman of the House…
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 By Varela   Out of 11 million registered voters in Florida, only a few more than 5 million vote. An apathetic vote.  First of all, it is a mid-term election and the image of the party…
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Al’s Loupe You think Tuesday was bad… By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progresoweekly.com This weekend I ran into an old friend. Someone I see occasionally. We worked together in a small…
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 By Mark Weisbrot  From The Guardian  Like the rally led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets of…
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 Editorial from The New York Times  Shrill political attacks have saturated the airwaves for months, but behind them is the real problem of this demoralizing election: the dark flow of…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com It is Halloween night as I write this. Could there be a better time to reflect on the horrors that await this country should the widespread…
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By Saul Landau  Walking into a San Francisco bar, I saw Chico, a guy I knew in the 1960s. We had run into each other at anti-war marches, sit-ins for equal hiring practices and other…
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 By David Brooks   From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada  Four years ago, Warren Buffett, the third richest man on the planet, said, "Of course there is a class war, but it's my class,…
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An analysis of documents and records show that private prisons helped draft and pass Arizona’ SB 1070. Click to hear the audio:
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Billy Wimsatt, founder of the League of Young Voters and Co-founder of Generational Alliance, has shared this "handy new tool, TheBallot.org, which has aggregated more than 350 local…
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