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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com In 1755, a huge earthquake struck Lisbon, destroying the city and killing between 10,000 and 100,000 people. The era's theologians and philosophers…
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By Saul Landau Look at the front page of the New York Times (Jan 17)… and you’d swear that chaos and violence are running rampant in Haiti, that everyone from journalists to relief…
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MLK economics (Final) To Washington by mule cart By Mark Engler The Poor People’s Campaign was conceived to create the political pressure required to enact the types of economic…
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By Mark Weisbrot For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a…
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By Bill Press There's no such thing as an "off-the-record" comment. That's usually one of the first lessons any politician learns. But poor Harry Reid had to learn it the hard way.…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com It has been twelve months since Barack Obama assumed office on that frigid January 2009 in Washington D.C. How shall we judge the president's first…
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MLK economics (Part 1 of 2) How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure By Mark Engler Martin Luther King, Jr. was working hard to…
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Excerpts of Naomi Klein’s appearance on Amy Goodman’s show Democracy Now! on the events in Haiti and who are profiting already with the tragedy. As I write about in The Shock Doctrine,…
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By Bill Press "Welcome to the Friendly Skies. Now take off all your clothes." Don't laugh! In the wake of the failed terrorist attempt over Detroit on Christmas Day, it may not be long…
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BOOK REVIEW Daniel P. Erickson: The Cuba Wars. Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution Reviewed by Max J. Castro This book presents a dispassionate and thorough…
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