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The U.S. needs to take steps for change alongside Cuba
By Wayne S. Smith
(This is a letter to the editor that recently appeared in The Washington Post.)
In his Aug. 9 op-ed column on his conversation with Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega,…
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Profits up at GM! And you’re still unemployed
By Michael Moore
So General Motors is back to making billions in profit. And if the past is any guide, we know what that means: time for some layoffs!
Or maybe not. Back in the ‘80s…
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Mosque controversy reveals Islamophobia
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
Even before President Barack Obama weighed in on the subject, a plan to build a Muslim cultural/religious center in New York City, two blocks from…
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Visiting Gerardo in prison
By Danny Glover and Saul Landau
From the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant…
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Time for Western Hemisphere countries to collaborate
By Bill Richardson
From The Washington Post
Arizona's attempt to create and enforce its own immigration policy has once again amplified -- and politicized -- the immigration debate…
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Card-carrying member of the ‘professional left’
By Bill Press
No doubt about it. In just 20 months, President Obama has accomplished more than any president since FDR. But he doesn't get enough credit for it. Not even from some…
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White House moves to ease travel restrictions to Cuba
By Mary Beth Sheridan and Karen DeYoung
From The Washington Post
The White House is preparing a package of measures that would expand opportunities for Americans to travel to Cuba and…
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Republican xenophobia: Another turn of the screw
By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com
The Republican Party has a longstanding record of opposing immigrants and immigration dating back at least to the early decades of the twentieth…
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A Cuban adventure with Lee Lockwood
By Saul Landau
In July 1967, I met Lee Lockwood at the Mexico City ticket counter of Cubana de Aviacion. He had black curly hair, a confident almost smug look and he toted camera…
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Conservatives lose their number 1 wedge issue
By Bill Press
The bad news is that hatred doesn't die easily. But the good news is that hatred does die eventually. And political movements built on hate have a relatively short shelf…
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