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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, met in Washington last Thursday to resume direct talks…
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By Saul Landau In the San Francisco Bay Area, California’s Central Valley, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington DC, Miami and other areas I’ve visited over the last year, I…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Here’s the situation: The U.S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis. The president’s policies have limited the damage, but they…
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