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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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By Saul Landau “The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited of January 20 (The Wall Street Journal reported last week that according to Partners in Health, 20,000 people a day are dying because of…
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By Bill Press Voters of Massachusetts have made big mistakes before. After all, they once elected Mitt Romney governor. But sending Scott Brown to Washington is their biggest mistake…
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By Greg Palast From AlterNet In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as "natural persons", i.e.…
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