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A film offers insight into the American character
By Saul Landau
“Stone” takes a hybrid Norman Rockwell-Grant Wood portrait of an aging mid western couple, adds two Quentin Tarantino characters who excel in manipulating and offers a…
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The American people don’t get it
By Bill Press
Even before the midterm elections, a lot of adjectives were used to describe American voters today. They are frustrated, disappointed, dissatisfied, disillusioned, and…
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No hope now for change in United States’ stance towards Cuba
By Albor Ruiz
From the New York Daily News
It is a never-ending story: Americans won't be traveling to Cuba anytime soon, at least not legally.
Whatever modest hopes about relaxing…
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Certified right-wing extremists set to take control of House Foreign Affairs panels
By Alex Main
From MRzine
In the early years of the past decade, two hard-line Cold Warriors, closely associated with radical right-wing Cuban exile groups in Florida, occupied…
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The lunacy of the Keith Olbermann suspension by MSNBC
By Matt Taibbi
From Rolling Stone Magazine
Just quickly: I just found out about the suspension of Keith Olbermann for making political contributions. NBC apparently has some policy…
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Obama’s Waterloo
An editorial from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
Yesterday's midterm elections in the United States show devastating results for the party of President Barack Obama.
Although the…
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What do the mid-term election results mean for U.S.-Cuba policy?
By Anya Landau French
From the Huffington Post
Let's start with the obvious. With the Republican takeover of Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes the new Chairwoman of the House…
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Drowning in campaign cash
Editorial from The New York Times
Shrill political attacks have saturated the airwaves for months, but behind them is the real problem of this demoralizing election: the dark flow of…
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Elections 2010: Turning right
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
It is Halloween night as I write this. Could there be a better time to reflect on the horrors that await this country should the widespread…
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A pre-election conversation
By Saul Landau
Walking into a San Francisco bar, I saw Chico, a guy I knew in the 1960s. We had run into each other at anti-war marches, sit-ins for equal hiring practices and other…
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