USA

By Max J. Castro The opponents of a public option as part of health care reform say they are afraid it would drive the private insurance companies out of business. If only. Hello?…
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By Saul Landau By 2012, college professors will stare into the glazed eyes of their students as they refer to non existent weapons of mass destruction and routine torture of suspected…
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By Robert C. Koehler The situation in Afghanistan is serious. We're getting "out-governed" by an enemy so ruthless it's bringing services to a desperate people ignored by the legitimate…
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By Saul Landau From grade school civics through university Poli Sci classes we learn about three branches of government, checks and balances and the other wonderful republican…
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By Valerie Steffl From University Chronicle, August 30, 2009 Around the first of the month, I was reading the global news and stumbled upon what was a highly blogged and criticized…
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By Bill Press Senator Ted Kennedy died exactly one year to the day after his powerful speech to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. There'd been a lot of speculation that…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Prosecute them all. It was at the Nuremberg trials following World War II that the principle was established that following orders was not a defense…
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By John Lamperti From Truthout The June 28 military coup that overthrew the legitimate government of Honduras was a shock. When the Central American wars of the 1980s finally ended,…
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By Rolando Castañeda and Lorenzo Cañizares Cuba is going through a crisis whose effects threaten the nation's ability to sustain itself. The young people, generally well-educated, do…
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By Bill Press It wasn't supposed to happen this way. In 1996, I came to Washington as the new liberal co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" to do battle with Bob Novak. And I did, hammer and…
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