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As reported by the Cuba Central team out of Washington, DC: The House Agriculture Committee voted 25-20 to report the "Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act" (H.R. 4645)…
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By Bill Press For commanders in the field, hidden away somewhere in the Pentagon's handbook of military strategy must be the warning: "In the middle of a war, don't waste your time…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The U.S. Senate last week rejected a bill, the “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010,” that would have extended unemployment…
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By Saul Landau The U.S. government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Four years ago, when the government of Evo Morales re-nationalized its hydrocarbon industry, the Brazilian media was spoiling for a fight. After…
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By Bill Press For the last two months, commenting on the BP oil spill, pundits have been on steroids. The environmental and economic catastrophe in the Gulf has been variously…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com When voters go to the polls this November for Congressional elections, one thing will be foremost in their minds: the state of the economy. The…
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By Saul Landau Almost two months after the spill President Obama addressed the nation (June 15). He said he would “fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes.”…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Spend now, while the economy remains depressed; save later, once it has recovered. How hard is that to understand? Very hard, if the current…
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By Marc A. Thiessen From The Washington Post Can Charlie Crist accomplish in Florida what Arlen Specter failed to do in Pennsylvania -- woo Democrats to his cause after bolting the GOP…
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