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Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed…
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Taxpayers shell out hundreds of billions a year for this ambiguous word “defense,” and yet we are infinitely vulnerable. Defense is defined as “resistance against attack.” But we have…
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In 2009, Dr. Sanjay Gupta wrote a TIME magazine article titled "Why I would Vote No on Pot." In this new article he changes his mind and apologizes “because I didn't look hard enough,…
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Before Hurricane Sandy last fall, we needed dystopian fiction writers to conjure images of NY's subway underwater... Now, global warming is taking over, which tells us that a climate…
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Top secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) “has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year.."
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World-renowned American author Alice Walker has been disinvited from giving a speech at the University of Michigan because a donor objects to her views on Israel.
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"This is a sad day for Bradley Manning, but it's also a sad day for all Americans who depend on brave whistleblowers and a free press for a fully informed public debate," commented the…
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Progreso Weekly columnist Yadira Escobar offers her impressions of who was at Miami International Airport to witness the arrival of 10 Cuban baseball players from Havana.
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The purchase of the Post intensified the big debate about the future of newspapers in the U.S. The new owner once said that "20 years from now there will be no printed newspapers" in…
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A group of 10 retired former Industriales baseball players arrived in Miami late Sunday night from Havana. As former members of Cuba’s most famous baseball team, they are here to…
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