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By Bernie Sanders While hard working Americans fill out their income tax returns this tax season, General Electric and other giant profitable corporations are avoiding U.S. taxes…
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By Saul Landau The human mind doesn’t easily process catastrophe. As Libyan forces battled, tens of millions witnessed televised images of ocean water rising over barricades, picking up…
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By Nelson P. Valdés  The following information originates in several sources . Most of the material comes from the U.S. Department of Defense, Base Structure Report, FY-2009.  The…
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By Robert ReichFrom the RobertReich blog Why isn’t Washington responding? The world’s third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake, tsunami, and radiation dangers. A civil war in…
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By Bill Press  It must be spring, because Republicans are frolicking through their annual ritual of trying to abolish funding for public broadcasting -- led this time by Majority Leader…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Count me among those who were glad to see the documentary “Inside Job” win an Oscar. The film reminded us that the financial crisis of 2008,…
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By Keith Olbermann From the Fok News Channel This is not to minimize the horror or the suffering of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but for our purposes here the headline is a…
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By Max J. Castro Workers in the United States -- indeed in most of the world -- are the objects of a major new assault on their rights, their standard of living, and their security.…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes U.S. foreign assistance empowers those in Cuba who are working towards positive change to advocate for fundamental freedoms and free market-oriented…
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By Bill Press After FDR disgracefully rounded up Japanese-Americans during World War II and locked them up in relocation camps, Americans promised: we'll never do that again. After…
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