USA

By M.S. Bellows Jr. From The Guardian (Progreso Editor’s Note: This is an abridged version of a much longer piece that appeared in the British newspaper The Guardian.) There…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state,…
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By Bill Press Scary things sometimes come in pretty packages. Take Paul Ryan. Most members of the media have a man-crush on him. When he released his 2012 budget, the New York Times…
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By Bill Press In case you didn't know, Congress is in recess. They've given themselves a five-week break. Unanimously. This week they voted "without objection" not to come…
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By Saul Landau Reading Jerry Mander’s The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System (Counterpoint: Berkeley, 2012), I recalled lessons from my first Marxism…
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1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future)…
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By Mark Engler NEW YORK - International progress in recovering from the economic downturn of recent years has been sluggish. But there is growth in at least one sector: The…
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By Bill Press I don't have to tell you. Politics has sunk lower than ever before. All we see from the Obama campaign are negative ads. And this, despite the fact that, back in April…
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By Saul Landau Gore Vidal died July 31. In 2005, I interviewed him for my weekly TV-radio show Hot Talk. We had first met years before at a dinner party at Marc Raskin’s house…
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By Saul Landau As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang…
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