USA

By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes (This essay was written on July 19, before any agreement was reached as to the conditions of Zelaya’s return to Honduras.) "Why haven't there been…
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By Bill Press "It's one of the most brilliant political moves ever. It shows she's not just your typical, run-of-the-mill politician. It will help her raise money. And it immediately…
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By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship From Truthout.org If you want to know what really matters in Washington, don't go to Capitol Hill for one of those hearings, or pay attention to…
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By Max J. Castro Health care reform is the most important social reform since the adoption of Medicare in the 1960s. The goal of universal health care looks finally attainable. Various…
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By Arturo Lopez Levy The coup d’état in Honduras has generated unanimous international repudiation. All the regional organizations of the Americas from the Central American Integration…
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By Saul Landau Amidst interminable “reporting” on the “poor” victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff -- would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas?…
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By Nikolas Kozloff When it comes to U.S. machinations and interventionism in Latin America, I'm not naïve: over the past five years, I've written two books about the inner workings of…
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"...one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dear President Obama, On August 3rd, 2009, over 140 of us will be returning from Cuba --…
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By Tom Hayden From the Huffington Post Apparent differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are threatening to confuse American policy towards the coup in Honduras. The…
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By Lorenzo A. Cañizares After watching the debate on the House Bill on climate change, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize economist and New York Times columnist, referred to the Republican…
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