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CIA cultivated human hurricanes
By Saul Landau
Quien siembra vientos recogerá tempestades – Spanish proverb
He who sows winds will reap hurricanes (proverb translation)
Luis Posada Carriles, now in his 80s, has…
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Let’s not be civil
By Paul Krugman
From The New York Times
Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party’s values – in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great…
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Same old stuff from the nuclear gang after Fukishima
Saul Landau and Jack Willis
For 60 years the nuclear industry has promised the world cheap, safe and clean energy. As the Japanese government continues to extend its nuclear…
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Ryan budget plan: Disaster for America
By Bill Press
OK. Whether you like his plan or not, can we all agree on one thing? Paul Ryan does not walk on water. But you'd never know that from the media adulation that's…
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Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba,’ explores return, 50 years after exodus
By Albor Ruiz
From the New York Daily News
“I left Cuba, but Cuba never left me.”
That's how Candi Sosa expressed the longing she has felt for 40 years for the country where she…
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Daydreaming of Cuba for dollars
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes
Almost 50 years after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the university professor tuned in to his I-pod radio. A news bulletin interrupted "It's Make Believe…
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The GOP drive to make us more reactionary
By Max J. Castro
Wisconsin produces more cheese than Switzerland, and a steady supply of progressive politicians. Indeed, from the early decades of the 20th century – when Robert M.…
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Too crazy for Fox – and that’s crazy!
By Bill Press
There's crazy and then there's really crazy. But you know you're really, really crazy when you're too crazy or radioactive for Fox News. And that's the case with Glenn…
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President Obama’s speech on reducing the budget
Following is a prepared text of President Obama's debt-reduction speech, to be delivered on Wednesday at The George Washington University, as released by the White House:
Good…
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The president is missing
By Paul Krugman
From The New York Times
What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid…
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