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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com For the last year, the Iraq war had become almost invisible in the eyes of the American media and the U.S. public. The reasons include the…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau We sat in the waiting room with eight other people, all black or Latino, while prison authorities “counted” -- presumably -- the prisoners. An hour and…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times This is what happens when you need to leap over an economic chasm -- but either can’t or won’t jump far enough, so that you only get part of…
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By Patricia Grogg From Inter Press Services HAVANA (IPS) - The risk of meningitis outbreaks rises during the dry season -- December to June -- in some 20 countries of sub-Saharan…
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By Julia Dawson This year, out of all the candidates and issues on the ballot, I am most passionate about voting YES on Amendments 5 & 6 on Election Day. These two amendments will…
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By Bill Press Ah, 1992. "The Year of the Woman." We remember it well. And how proud we were. To see the number of women in the U.S. Senate triple: from two to six. From California,…
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By Annie Betancourt Once the decadal Census is completed, the process begins of drawing the boundaries of the legislative districts that have emerged or changed as a result of changes…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Cubans living in the United States visited their country of origin in 2009 as never before in half a century and this…
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I attended an event Friday morning at the Brookings Institution, entitled Cuba's Energy Future: Strategic Approaches to Cooperation. Brookings is not known for being the most…
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By Varela According to the TV and some Miami media, I was duking it out with a mini-Muhammad Ali in the middle of the street when a policeman arrived (but didn't see the boxer, just…
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