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As the global economy trembles, our nation’s capital fiddles
By Robert ReichFrom the RobertReich blog
Why isn’t Washington responding?
The world’s third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake, tsunami, and radiation dangers. A civil war in…
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Saving Big Bird — and Jim Lehrer, too
By Bill Press
It must be spring, because Republicans are frolicking through their annual ritual of trying to abolish funding for public broadcasting -- led this time by Majority Leader…
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Another inside job
By Paul Krugman
From The New York Times
Count me among those who were glad to see the documentary “Inside Job” win an Oscar. The film reminded us that the financial crisis of 2008,…
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And good night, American nuclear power
By Keith Olbermann
From the Fok News Channel
This is not to minimize the horror or the suffering of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but for our purposes here the headline is a…
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Open season on workers
By Max J. Castro
Workers in the United States -- indeed in most of the world -- are the objects of a major new assault on their rights, their standard of living, and their security.…
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GROSS STUPIDITY: U.S.-Cuba policy for 50+ years
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes
U.S. foreign assistance empowers those in Cuba who are working towards positive change to advocate for fundamental freedoms and free market-oriented…
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Joe McCarthy is born again — as Peter King
By Bill Press
After FDR disgracefully rounded up Japanese-Americans during World War II and locked them up in relocation camps, Americans promised: we'll never do that again.
After…
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Posada Carriles trial is postponed for the last time, due to his natural death
March 2014: EXTRA! EXTRA!
Posada Carriles trial is postponed for the last time, due to his natural death
By Nelson Valdés
Luis Posada Carriles died an expected death, because…
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Different universes in one country
By Saul Landau
Listen to right wing talk radio – and tens of millions do – and you’ll hear about an alternative universe where bitter aliens describe a different reality than the one…
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America is NOT broke
By Michael Moore
America is not broke.
Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your…
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