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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian (U.K.) In March I wrote about the Obama administration's contribution (March 18) to the election campaign under way in Venezuela, where voters…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The latest economic news is bad, very bad indeed, at least for the vast majority of Americans, although not for corporations and the rich. Rather…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdés “The average Washington correspondent is content to write what he is spoon-fed by the government's press officers.” I. F. Stone, 1953. “When the…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times I’m starting to have a sick feeling about prospects for American workers -- but not, or not entirely, for the reasons you might think. Yes,…
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By Bill Press You've heard of the gang that couldn't shoot straight? Barack Obama's the man who can't shoot straight. His first 20 months have zipped by with nothing to show for…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Cuba and the United States raised the pressure last weekend to demand the mutual release of prisoners, an…
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Elsa Claro is a Cuban journalist who specializes on issues of International importance. She lives in Havana.
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By Michael C. Bender From the Palm Beach Post Republican Marco Rubio collected $4.3 million from April 1 to June 30, a record for a U.S. Senate candidate in Florida. But he spent $4…
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By Bill Press Shirley Sherrod has been offered a new job in the Department of Agriculture. And by the time you read this, I hope she has taken it. She was done wrong. And she would…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com These days the discussion in Washington D.C. centers on deficits. Deficit hawks abound; they predict the country will be ruined unless the U.S.…
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