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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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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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