USA

By Ralph Nader From Bloomberg.net The stars are aligned for Barack Obama’s re-election in November 2012. He won’t join Jimmy Carter to be the second Democrat in 120 years to lose a…
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By Bill Press Which of the following statements is true? (1) There is no such thing as global warming. (2) September 11 was an inside job, engineered by George Bush and Dick Cheney.…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican daily La Jornada “This is change?” asks a box of mints with the image of Barack Obama. They are called “dissappoint-mints” and are made by the…
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By Bill Press Among all the wicked tongues of Washington, D.C., there has never been a sharper one than that of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's first daughter. It was she who said…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News Asked by reporters how the profound changes announced last week in Havana by President Raúl Castro at the Sixth Communist Party Congress –…
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By Saul Landau Quien siembra vientos recogerá tempestades – Spanish proverb He who sows winds will reap hurricanes (proverb translation) Luis Posada Carriles, now in his 80s, has…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party’s values – in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great…
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Saul Landau and Jack Willis For 60 years the nuclear industry has promised the world cheap, safe and clean energy. As the Japanese government continues to extend its nuclear…
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By Bill Press OK. Whether you like his plan or not, can we all agree on one thing? Paul Ryan does not walk on water. But you'd never know that from the media adulation that's…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News “I left Cuba, but Cuba never left me.” That's how Candi Sosa expressed the longing she has felt for 40 years for the country where she…
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