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Arizona: Brown skins need not apply
By Bill Press
Sometimes, it seems we've made progress as Americans. At other times, it's clear we have not. Witness the retrograde, racist, unconstitutional anti-immigration law…
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The importance of getting Wall Street out of Washington, and Washington out of Wall Street
By Robert Reich
From the Robert Reich blog
Washington’s relationship with Wall Street is growing more schizophrenic by the day. On the one hand, Congress is trying to show how tough…
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From violent talk to violent actions
By Bill Press
Fifteen years after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, we saw two very different commemorations of that tragic event.
In Oklahoma City, survivors and families of the 168…
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Scapegoating immigrants — again
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
Here we go again on the immigration merry-go-round. Arizona’s Republican Governor Janice Brewer has signed into law one of the most draconian…
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50 years later the struggle continues
By Saul Landau
On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s. The white waitresses ignored them. They remained…
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Behind the Arizona Immigration law: GOP game to swipe the November election
Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law
By Greg Palast
From Truthout.org
PHOENIX -- Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it…
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Energy bill-Immigration bill both vital to the country
A dangerous squabble
A New York Times editorial
Among the Senate’s most important tasks this year are fashioning a rational, humane immigration policy and a rational, comprehensive…
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America needs a proud liberal on the Supreme Court
By Bill Press
What difference does it make who's on the Supreme Court? All the difference in the world. And few have ever made more difference than John Paul Stevens.
A Republican,…
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Crocodile tears on Wall Street
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
From Truthout.org
With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't…
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Angry white men
By Max J. Castro
The Tea Party movement, as it emerges from this survey, represents a radical right tinged with racism and resentment against what it believes to be the takeover of…
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