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By Bill Press It took him a long time, but it looks like CNN President Jon Klein will finally get around to doing what he should have done a long time ago. In order to maintain the…
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By Bill Press Ah, democracy! It never works better than when informed citizens gather in town hall meetings to discuss and debate the issues of the day. But, oh, democracy! It's never…
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By Oscar Montero "Affinity of character is more powerful than affinity of color." -- José Martí In recent weeks it seems as if the dreaded race card has become the race billboard.…
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By Mary Mulhern From the St. Petersburg Times My recent visit to Cuba with Tampa Port Authority Commissioner Carl Lindell, former U.S. Senate Secretary Joe Stewart and a group of…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A few years ago Grover Norquist, one of the gurus of the right-wing intelligentsia in Washington, once remarked he hoped to be able to shrink the…
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By Saul Landau President Obama has a rough task promoting health care that will provide coverage for most Americans and reduce the cost of this basic service so that it doesn’t bankrupt…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times So it seems that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government. Just to…
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$133+ million spent in 3 months to derail health care reform By Michael Winship From Truthout.org As we marvel over the depths of hypocrisy and greed currently plumbed in the health…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com While on Capitol Hill the legions of well-fed and well-heeled lobbyists worked feverishly to emasculate health care reform, a few hundred miles away…
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(An answer to Carlos Alberto Montaner) By Arturo López Levy In the 1950s, a new word entered the dictionary: McCarthyism. A word associated with the practices of Republican Sen.…
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