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By Bill Press From the Navy SEALs' daring raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, we learned a lot about the world's most wanted man. We learned he wasn't such a macho guy, after all.…
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The death of Osama bin Laden An Editorial taken from The New York Times The killing of Osama bin Laden provoked a host of reactions from Americans: celebration, triumph, relief, closure…
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By Saul Landau In April, the Army transferred Private Bradley Manning from a Quantico, Virginia, solitary confinement cell to the federal prison at Leavenworth Kansas. At Quantico,…
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By Ralph Nader From Bloomberg.net The stars are aligned for Barack Obama’s re-election in November 2012. He won’t join Jimmy Carter to be the second Democrat in 120 years to lose a…
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By Bill Press Which of the following statements is true? (1) There is no such thing as global warming. (2) September 11 was an inside job, engineered by George Bush and Dick Cheney.…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican daily La Jornada “This is change?” asks a box of mints with the image of Barack Obama. They are called “dissappoint-mints” and are made by the…
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By Bill Press Among all the wicked tongues of Washington, D.C., there has never been a sharper one than that of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's first daughter. It was she who said…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News Asked by reporters how the profound changes announced last week in Havana by President Raúl Castro at the Sixth Communist Party Congress –…
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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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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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