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Free enterprise on trial
By Robert Reich
From the Robert Reich blog
Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as "free enterprise on trial" – defining free enterprise as achieving success through…
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Give Guantanamo back to Cuba
By Jonathan M. Hansen
From The New York Times
IN the 10 years since the Guantánamo detention camp opened, the anguished debate over whether to shutter the facility — or make it…
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Ending a cruel immigration twist
From The Washington Post Editorial Board
America’s half-baked immigration system is riddled with unfair, arbitrary and inhumane provisions, but few are so senseless and cruel…
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A tale of 2 countries
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés
“…they cannot forgive us, who are there in front of their noses and who have made a socialist revolution before the very nose of the United…
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Santorum gets his (brief) moment in the sun
By Bill Press
Mitt "Landslide" Romney may have won the Iowa caucuses by a whopping eight votes, but everybody knows the real winner was former Pennsylvania Senator Rick…
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From September 11 to September 17
From September 11 to September 17 By Dalia Céspedes Januay 07/2012 Those of you who were in New York in the aftermath of the Twin Towers´ catastrophe will remember how in the!-->>!-->>!-->>…
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GOP ticket 2012: Romney-Rubio
By Robert Reich
From the Robert Reich blog
Since my New Year's prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary…
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Trampling out the vintage
By Saul Landau
Frank Bardacke has written the comprehensive history of the United Farm Workers, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez And The Two Souls of The United Farm Workers, a…
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Visiting Gerardo and comparing Gross with the Cuban Five
By Danny Glover and Saul Landau
2:30 PM - Departure time, the most excruciating part of visiting Gerardo Hernandez. A prison guard announced: “Visiting hours are over.”…
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God doesn’t care about politics or football
By Bill Press
Psssst! Don't tell anybody, but I have a secret. I talk to God every day. And she told me herself: She doesn't give a fig who wins the Republican primary. But you'd…
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