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By Mark Weisbrot From The New York Times Hugo Chávez and his party won 13 of 14 elections mainly because they greatly improved the living standards of the majority of voters in…
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By Michael Moore I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what - a…
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By Bill Press Well, what do you know? We didn't go over the fiscal cliff, after all. In the end, the country was spared. Only the Republican Party was destroyed. Or, at least,…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – A key to the solution to the dispute between Cuba and the United States lies in a future scenario where a…
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By Nick Miroff From GlobalPost.com HAVANA - At the last Summit of the Americas, held in Colombia in April, Washington’s rivals in Latin America and its political allies had the…
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By Phyllis Pomerantz From The Globe and Mail (Canada) Now that the election is over, the United States has a rare opportunity to do away with one of its most pointless and…
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On the morning of Friday, Jan. 2, 1959, Americans who purchased The New York Times learned about a significant news event. "Batista and regime flee Cuba," said a headline atop Page…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways: 1. Republicans haven’t conceded anything on the debt ceiling,…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog President Obama is cutting his Christmas holiday short, returning to Washington for a last attempt at avoiding the fiscal cliff. But…
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By Maureen Dowd From The New York Times When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental.” I knew…
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