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Crocodile tears on Wall Street
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
From Truthout.org
With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't…
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Angry white men
By Max J. Castro
The Tea Party movement, as it emerges from this survey, represents a radical right tinged with racism and resentment against what it believes to be the takeover of…
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Real war games
By Saul Landau
Write “war games.” Hit Google search. In a millisecond untold possibilities appear. I endure a Charmin toilet paper commercial where a cartoon bear wipes his butt with…
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Why more immigrants are an answer to the coming boomer entitlement mess
By Robert Reich
From the Robert Reich blog
I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. So was Laura Bush. And Ken…
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The world’s worst public relations campaign
By Bill Press
For Christians and Jews everywhere, whether they celebrate Easter or Passover, this is the most holy time of the year. How unfortunate, then, that so many people chose…
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Dirty coal
By Max J. Castromaxjcastro@gmail.com
In the mining industry, workers are expendable. The tragedy at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died in an explosion,…
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The decline of the Catholic Church?
By Saul Landau
Scandals distract the public from focusing on key issues. Sometimes, however, they also provide insights into the character of leading cultural and political figures --…
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Greenspan, Summers, and why the economy is so out of whack
From the Robert Reich blog
I’m in the “green room” at ABC News, waiting to join a roundtable panel discussion on ABC’s weekly Sunday news program, This Week.
Alan Greenspan…
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Drill, baby, drill!
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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Dr. King’s economic dream deferred
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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