USA

By Max J. Castro Health care reform is the most important social reform since the adoption of Medicare in the 1960s. The goal of universal health care looks finally attainable. Various…
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By Arturo Lopez Levy The coup d’état in Honduras has generated unanimous international repudiation. All the regional organizations of the Americas from the Central American Integration…
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By Saul Landau Amidst interminable “reporting” on the “poor” victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff -- would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas?…
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By Nikolas Kozloff When it comes to U.S. machinations and interventionism in Latin America, I'm not naïve: over the past five years, I've written two books about the inner workings of…
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"...one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dear President Obama, On August 3rd, 2009, over 140 of us will be returning from Cuba --…
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By Tom Hayden From the Huffington Post Apparent differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are threatening to confuse American policy towards the coup in Honduras. The…
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By Lorenzo A. Cañizares After watching the debate on the House Bill on climate change, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize economist and New York Times columnist, referred to the Republican…
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By Bill Press Good things don't come easily. It took 239 days, but the Minnesota Supreme Court finally declared Al Franken the winner over Norm Coleman. And suddenly Democrats have 60…
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By Max J. Castro The sad, sad life of Michael Jackson is over. Money did not buy him happiness or even peace. But, upon his death, his story monopolized the media for more than a week.…
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By Saul Landau From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development” than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands…
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