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A late September morning with Fidel (Part 1) From guerrilla warrior to statesman -- now comfortably retired By Saul Landau The driver weaved through the maze of two lane roads just…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Stocks are up. Ben Bernanke says that the recession is over. And I sense a growing willingness among movers and shakers to declare “Mission…
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By Bill Press The same day: Wednesday, Sept. 30. The same topic: Afghanistan. The same city: Washington, D.C. But two very different settings. At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue,…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian "The old system of international economic cooperation is over,” announced UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. “The new…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com "We've basically seen a lost decade," said Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard University."We had a plutocratic boom. Then we have egalitarian…
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By Saul Landau On September 20, President Raul Castro dropped in unannounced to see a family member who had invited me and other American friends to visit. Dressed in a white guayavera…
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By Bill Press Quick! What's the most important issue facing this country? If you watch Fox News, you have no doubt. It's not health-care reform, the economy, global warming,…
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By Michael Winship From Truthout If you ever needed proof that Washington is governed by the Golden Rule -- the one that says, he who has the gold, rules -- you only have to look at…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Corruption takes many forms in different countries and locations. Here in the United States it may not be as common to pay off a judge or a customs…
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By Max J. Castro mcastro@gmail.com But beyond the GOP’s lies and the Democrats’ rebuttals there is the question nobody dares ask. What about the undocumented immigrants? Are they a…
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