USA

By Saul Landau In upmarket restaurants one wouldn’t know the world is suffering from a food crisis. As I observed young executives and professionals slurping oysters and chasing them…
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By Dana Milbank From The Washington Post Did Arianna Huffington just sell out her fellow progressives? In the literal sense, she undoubtedly has: The sale of Huffington Post to AOL…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Follow the money. Soaring rhetoric and good intentions aside, what counts and what really defines a nation, a society, or a community is who gets…
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By Bill Press It's amazing what we can do with our iPhones: make calls, return emails, schedule meetings, file notes, take photos, keep grocery lists, get wake-up calls, time a…
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By Peter Kornbluh Taken from The Nation In El Paso, Texas, the perjury trial of the infamous violent Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles took a historic turn today. For the first time in a…
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By Saul Landau TV showed seemingly interminable telephoto images of protestors against Mubarak’s dictatorship; then, of his thugs disguised as pro-government protestors. Suggesting…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The power of the gun lobby in the United States -- and the determination of Republican politicians to coddle the National Rifle Association (NRA)…
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By Bill Press "It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing. Something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide…
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A Washington Post editorial Congress and the Obama administration are in the market for fresh ideas to create jobs. Or so we are told. So far, however, we haven't seen too many…
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Miami Herald allegations were “ridiculous,” he says By Danny Glover and Saul Landau On our third visit, the neo-fascist architecture of the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Victorville…
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