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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés History quiz: Name the greatest robbery committed in the last 100 years. A: Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi schemeB: Nazi theft of art treasures from…
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The president is trying to please everyone, but he needs to take tough action to prevent the U.S. economy's second freefall By Joseph Stiglitz From The Guardian Defeat in the…
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By Bill Press "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered," asks Bill Murray, playing weatherman Phil…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com President Barack Obama has presented his vision for the nation in the form of the 2011 budget. It has many reasons to commend it. The top immediate…
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By Saul Landau “In a striking admission from the Obama Administration's top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times These days it’s hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit.…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News, Jan. 31, 2010 R.I.P. immigration reform. President Obama wrote its epitaph last Wednesday in his State of the Union speech. Now it is…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited When I write about U.S. foreign policy in places like Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to…
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By Bill Press Among other priorities in his State of the Union address, President Obama vowed to change the way Washington works. Here's one good place to start: get rid of the…
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Failure is not an option. The Obama presidency is the best chance for progressives for at least a generation until the demographic trends catch up with the Republicans in 20 or 30…
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