USA

By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The advocates of the Iraq war said U.S. soldiers would be received with flowers and candies. That never happened. Now, more than 4,000 American and…
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By Saul Landau “Climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters.  The scarcity of water will affect hundreds of millions of people. Malnutrition is going to…
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By Max J. Castro Whipped up by demagogues, bankrolled by the insurance lobby, the debate over health care reform has brought out all of the nation’s Obama-hating paranoia, resentment…
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By Saul Landau A group of scientists, military officials and government bureaucrats signed an informal pact with the devil. The contract became public in August 1945, when U.S. bombers…
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By Noam Chomsky From In These Times A debate is under way at the United Nations over a policy that may seem uncontroversial: an international framework to prevent severe crimes…
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By Bill Press It took him a long time, but it looks like CNN President Jon Klein will finally get around to doing what he should have done a long time ago. In order to maintain the…
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By Bill Press Ah, democracy! It never works better than when informed citizens gather in town hall meetings to discuss and debate the issues of the day. But, oh, democracy! It's never…
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By Oscar Montero "Affinity of character is more powerful than affinity of color." -- José Martí In recent weeks it seems as if the dreaded race card has become the race billboard.…
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By Mary Mulhern From the St. Petersburg Times My recent visit to Cuba with Tampa Port Authority Commissioner Carl Lindell, former U.S. Senate Secretary Joe Stewart and a group of…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A few years ago Grover Norquist, one of the gurus of the right-wing intelligentsia in Washington, once remarked he hoped to be able to shrink the…
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