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Legalization of torture
By Yadira Escobar
MIAMI – U.S. senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte apparently wish to deprive the suspect in the Boston attack, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, of his civil…
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Guns YES, immigrants NO
By William Saletan
From Slate
Mandatory background checks are a terrible idea. They burden law-abiding citizens and don’t catch criminals. The databases they rely on are riddled…
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U.S. seeks to get rid of left governments in Latin America
U.S. seeks to get rid of left governments in Latin America
By Mark Weisbrot
From Brazil’s Fohla de Sao Paulo
Recent events indicate that the Obama administration has stepped up…
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Cuba policy: Fruitless, stupid, mean and cruel
By Saul Landau and Nelson P Valdés
In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials…
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Great patience required
By Peter Kornbluh
From The Nation Magazine
In early April of 1963, a New York lawyer named James Donovan traveled to Havana to negotiate the release of U.S. citizens being held in…
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Shame on the Senate
By Bill Press
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we…
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Indisputable torture
A New York Times editorial
A dozen years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an independent, nonpartisan panel's examination of the interrogation and detention programs…
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Immigration reform a bitter pill
By Max J. Castro
MIAMI - Has the time finally come for the U.S. Congress to deal seriously with the reality of eleven million undocumented immigrants in this country who live in…
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Why American business needs to follow Beyoncé to Cuba
By Chris Farrell
From Bloomberg Businessweek
Controversy and Cuba are synonymous in the U.S. The latest blow-up involves a U.S. Treasury-sanctioned educational excursion to Cuba…
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When will the media ask important questions?
By Saul Landau
I find it disturbing that the press corps doesn’t ask obvious questions of high U.S. officials; rather, journalists plead for small details after they accept…
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