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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up 
like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten…
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By Saul Landau Viscerally, only those who get paid off or have no sensibilities don’t sense the climate change phenomenon. I look out at San Francisco Bay after a night’s rain and see…
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By Bill Press Have you heard? President Obama's historic health care reform plan is dead. Killed with one shot by a federal district court judge in Virginia. That's the news…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., praises the President’s agreement with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts. “If…
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Bill now awaits action by the House By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray From The Washington Post A sweeping tax package negotiated by the White House and Republican leaders sailed…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A Miami-based exile organization is launching a campaign to abolish the death penalty in Cuba according to a story in El Nuevo Herald (“Lanzan…
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By Saul Landau Julian Assange should write a new cookbook, and a certain best-seller. Take a Leak* would offer not only recipes about what to do with that rarely used political…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Like it or not — and I don’t — the Obama-McConnell tax-cut deal, with its mixture of very bad stuff and sort-of-kind-of good stuff, is likely…
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By Bill Press I'll bet you didn't know that the mayors of Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, and Columbus, Ohio -- as well as the…
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By Arturo Lopez Levy From The Havana Note From its title “Cuba’s Jewish hostage”, the Washington Post editorial of last Tuesday, December 7, about the situation of Alan Gross is an…
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