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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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By Mark Weisbrot President Obama is currently confronting mostly Republican opponents over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of taxpayers. Between…
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By Bill Press For me, the first sentence of a New York Times article, the Monday after the Aurora, Colo., shooting, says it all: "Unhindered by federal background checks or…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are…
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By Saul Landau Savage=not domesticated or cultivated; wild. In June and July the war on drugs proceeded apace as DEA agents and Honduran military goons knocked off some Miskitu…
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By Jilian Mincer From Reuters For generations, most college-bound Americans paid reasonable fees to attend publicly financed state universities. But the bedrock of that system is…
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By Bill Press Somewhere, Newt Gingrich is laughing. Sure, we made fun of him during the primaries. And we cheered when Mitt Romney poured in the big bucks and crushed him like a bug.…
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By Carol Morello and Luz Lazo From The Washington Post The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez. A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home…
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By Saul Landau Western leaders met in Paris last week to discuss possible intervention in Syria where almost 10,000 people have died over the last year of internal conflict. The West…
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