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The second act of an unprecedented tragedy
Nobody can predict the outcome -- if there is one -- to the humanitarian crisis created by the exodus of innocents who, against all obstacles, cross the border by themselves, coming…
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Stop calling the Iraq War a ‘mistake’
The former presidential candidate challenges President Obama to tell the American public the truth about the Iraq fiasco. Kucinich insists that more problems were created by military…
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The historical context of the Cuban Five
Proclaiming that the doctrine of American exceptionalism emerged dramatically alongside U.S. policy toward Cuba, we reproduce the presentation given by historian Jane Franklin during…
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Cantor lost. Now Obama must act on immigration.
House Majority Leader and U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, of Virginia, lost his seat and his rising conservative star status. Whether or not his duplicitous role in immigration reform is the…
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Hillary ‘the Habanera’
It was a warm night in the sensual city of Cartagena, Colombia, and the then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, after the closing of the Sixth Summit of the Americas, drank a couple…
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How the national security state kills a free society (+ Video)
ACLU supporters received an email from Edward Snowden Thursday, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of revelations exposing the breathtaking scope of U.S.…
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As the world burns
Amid all the foam and froth in Washington surrounding last week's forced resignation of Eric Shinseki as head of the Veterans Administration, another more momentous controversy was…
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What justifies Oscar López Rivera’s 33 years in prison?
Few know this, but one of the oldest political prisoners in the world is not in China, Russia, Syria, Iran, Venezuela or Cuba but in a prison in Indiana, here in the United States, an…
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State Dept.: U.S. won’t trade 3 Cubans for Gross (+ Video)
The simultaneous release of five Afghan prisoners from Guantánamo, and U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl drew this exchange during the press briefing at the State Department between…
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Bowe Bergdahl’s release and Alan Gross’ future
The announcement that the United States and the Afghan Taliban guerrillas traded five leaders of the armed organization for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl must have triggered a veritable earthquake…
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