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By Bill Press Good things don't come easily. It took 239 days, but the Minnesota Supreme Court finally declared Al Franken the winner over Norm Coleman. And suddenly Democrats have 60…
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By Max J. Castro The sad, sad life of Michael Jackson is over. Money did not buy him happiness or even peace. But, upon his death, his story monopolized the media for more than a week.…
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By Saul Landau From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development” than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands…
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By Bill Press Oh, the Appalachian Trail. It's famous as the longest footpath in the nation -- but now we know it's even longer than we thought, stretching all the way from Maine to…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.org Regardless of who really won the Iranian election, the brutal reaction of the theocratic regime to peaceful protests has destroyed any legitimacy…
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By Saul Landau You know bad times have hit when Illinois budget cuts no longer permit the state to bury dead indigents. A letter to funeral homes from the Department of Human Services…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times (June 25, 2009) When it comes to domestic policy, there are two Barack Obamas. On one side there’s Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the…
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The Iranian protests and the mainstream media By Jack Z. Bratich We can all remember a moment when we gazed up at the sky and used our imagination to make familiar shapes out of the…
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A message from the AMA And now a message from the American Medical Association. Who is the AMA? We’re your family doctor… who makes you wait two weeks for an appointment. We’re the…
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By Lorenzo Cañizares and Rolando Castañeda Early this month, the Obama administration indicated its desire to begin a dialogue with the Cuban government to solve the migratory problem…
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