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By Bill Press Nobody's perfect. That's what drives me crazy about Barack Obama. I want him to be perfect. But just when I think he's about to walk on water, he disappoints me again.…
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By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship From Truthout.org Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. To those…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A consortium of nine major Latino organizations has just released a report card that gives mediocre grades to a large number of Senators and…
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By Saul Landau In 2005, teaching a history class to university juniors and seniors, I mentioned the Vietnam War. I noticed glazed looks in the eyes of several students. I asked a…
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By Mark Weisbrot From Folha de Sao Paulo President Lula da Silva has come under fire from opponents lately for refusing to join the United States’ campaign for increased sanctions…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Few presidents get a second honeymoon of their own making. (George W. got one when terrorists attacked the United States.) Barack Obama’s…
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By Bill Press As a campaign manager, consultant, party chair, and candidate, I've been to a lot of political celebrations in my life. But never one more boisterous or meaningful than…
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By Saul Landau A 2006 BBC poll showed the United States as the “biggest global peace threat.” BBC summarized their survey: “People in European and Muslim countries see U.S. policy in…
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Market-based thinking has imperiled the planet and created the need for a democratic rebirth, argues Raj Patel in The Value of Nothing. By Mark Engler In 1971, the most popular field of…
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By Gimleteye From the Eye on Miami blog More than two years after Wall Street's closest brush with death since the Great Depression, taxpayers, investors and voters are still…
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