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Media battles in Latin America not about “free speech”
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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Harry Reid is no Trent Lott
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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Year one of Obama: Judge him by his enemies
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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How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure
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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“The Haitian crisis offers the U.S. opportunities of intervention”
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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Before boarding plane, remove all clothing
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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Who knows what will happen in the coming decade…
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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Why Latin America is disappointed with Barack Obama
By Collin Laverty
From The Huffington Post
Our organization, the Center for Democracy in the Americas, works on straightening out U.S. policy toward the region. We're trying to…
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Magical Realism — A coup in Honduras, so 20th Century! (Part 1)
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” -- Henry Kissinger, June 26,…
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Is anyone telling us the truth?
By Craig Roberts
From OpEdNews.com
What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These…
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