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By David Espo and Alan Fram From the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional negotiators reached agreement Thursday on a compromise spending bill to avert a weekend federal…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes “Children are born to be happy.” -- José Martí On November 19, 2011, NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg…
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By Bill Press You could never accuse Republicans of going "back to the future." In fact, there are many past leaders of their own party whom today's Republicans would never…
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By Collin Laverty Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of the imprisonment of Alan Gross, a U.S. Government subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba. Gross and his family have maintained…
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From the Latin America Working Group (Progreso Weekly Editor’s Note: It is important to note that although this initiative is republican-led, there are numerous democrats in…
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(Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of pieces of an interview conducted by Lesley Stahl of CBS News during the TV program ’60 Minutes.”) A year ago, Paul O'Neill was fired from his…
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By Bill Press You won't hear me say this often, but here goes: I apologize for all the nasty things I said about Newt Gingrich in last week's column. I'll even go so far as to admit…
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By Robert Scheer From Truthdig The fix was in to let the Wall Street scoundrels off the hook for the enormous damage they caused in creating the Great Recession. All of the leading…
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By Saul Landau How did this country survive before it found formidable enemies around which the government could mobilize hatred and fear? I don’t remember the 1930s when poverty,…
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By Bill Press What do you get when you put Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson on the same stage together? A plea for help! That's what we heard from…
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