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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from…
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By Saul Landau I propose President Obama end the war against terrorism and admit the phrase means “Muslims should scare you!” For example, the media recently showed a documentary film…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com Casino capitalism may finally have its day of reckoning or, at least, its moment of discomfort. Because, for all the outrage at the banks and all…
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By Michael Moore From Time Magazine When Brazilians first elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President in 2002, the country's robber barons nervously checked the fuel gauges on their…
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By Bill Press Sometimes, it seems we've made progress as Americans. At other times, it's clear we have not. Witness the retrograde, racist, unconstitutional anti-immigration law…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Washington’s relationship with Wall Street is growing more schizophrenic by the day. On the one hand, Congress is trying to show how tough…
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By Bill Press Fifteen years after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, we saw two very different commemorations of that tragic event. In Oklahoma City, survivors and families of the 168…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com Here we go again on the immigration merry-go-round. Arizona’s Republican Governor Janice Brewer has signed into law one of the most draconian…
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By Saul Landau On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s. The white waitresses ignored them. They remained…
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Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law By Greg Palast From Truthout.org PHOENIX -- Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it…
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