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Cuba travel bill discussion/vote postponed
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Statement of Chairman Howard L. Berman on H.R. 4645
Washington, DC – Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the…
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Really big business turns small for tax purposes
By NBC News and MSNBC
Some firms with billions in revenues get to pay less tax than traditional corporations.
A number of companies with multi-billion dollar revenues have been…
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The return of the right
By Max J. Castro
It was supposed to be the “summer of (economic) recovery.” Instead, it was the summer of reactionary politics.
It has been an excellent few months indeed for the…
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Assassination on Embassy Row – 34 years later
By Saul Landau
September 21, 1976, 9:45 am. My home phone buzzed. “I just saw the worst accident,” my wife said. “Smoke coming from the car, metal and maybe parts of a body and cops…
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Tea Party triumphs: Good news for Democrats
By Bill Press
What a difference a year makes. Last summer, both Republicans and Democrats considered the idea of a Tea Party a joke. Tea Partiers were good at raising hell at town…
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Landau and Valdés ask if former U.S. official lied
From the Along the Malecon blog
Earlier this week, Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés wrote an article questioning former Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega's tactics in Cuba.…
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Confessions of Roger Noriega: Muscular diplomacy or law breaking?
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes
In May, Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2003-2005), acknowledged he conspired with James Cason, chief…
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End of the bonanza for the ultra-rich?
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
The last ten years the United States has witnessed perhaps the greatest transfer of wealth in history. The 2001 Bush tax cuts, set to expire at the…
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Implications of a pointless war
By Robert C. Koehler
What does it mean that the New York Times, upon the occasion of President Obama's announced drawdown of forces in Iraq, called our seven and a half years of…
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The Los Angeles Times wants Cuba to ignore covert U.S. agents
A La Alborada Editorial
On September 9, the Los Angeles Times published an article about Alan Gross, the USAID subcontractor who has been jailed in Cuba, with this headline: "Case of…
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