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A coup in Paraguay? Who cares!
By Saul Landau
“Americans will do anything for Latin America except read about it.” - James Reston
“You go Uruguay and I’ll go my way,” said Groucho…
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Immigrants and small business
A The New York Times editorial
Immigrants are known as entrepreneurial people, for obvious reasons: those with the ambition and energy to uproot themselves and build new lives in a…
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Supreme victory for healthcare
By Bill Press
We know the Supreme Court. On December 12, 2000, it decided that George W. Bush would be the next president of the United States. On June 28, 2012, it decided that…
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Supreme Court backs Obama healthcare law
By Sam Baker
From The Hill
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the insurance mandate in President Obama’s healthcare law, a stinging defeat for conservatives who had insisted the law…
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Justice Scalia must resign
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
From The Washington Post
Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court.
He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d…
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Cuba embargo is unjust and hypocritical
By Curt Ventresca
From Policymic.com
It is time for the United States to remove the embargo against Cuba. The embargo has failed to achieve all of its stated goals (the removal of…
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A cruel and unusual record
By Jimmy Carter
From The New York Times
The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.
Revelations that top officials are targeting people to…
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Free the six
By Saul Landau
What did Cuba do to the United States to merit 53 years of castigation?
In 1960, those dirty Caribbean Commies joined the “evil” side in the Cold War…
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The right to develop vs. the right to strangle
By Robert Sandels
A Cuban official recently brought up a point that is seldom remarked in the foreign media, to wit, that the economic blockade – the centerpiece of U.S. Cuba policy…
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No, no, no – both sides are not equally to blame
By Bill Press
This is the political season. So you can expect to hear a lot of lies, and we do. "The stimulus did not create one single job." (John Boehner) "Barack…
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