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Why doesn’t Obama just stay home?
By Bill Press
In the interest of full disclosure, I sometimes crave a good burger. So whenever the mood strikes, I head to the "Five Guys" closest to Washington's Capitol Hill: on New…
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Oil and Indians don’t mix
By Greg Palast
From GregPalast.com
There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down…
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Why have we stopped talking about guns?
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
From Truthout.org
You know by now that in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, an elderly white supremacist and anti-Semite named James W. von Brunn…
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Ready for my own bed and a Nathan’s hot dog
Ancient memories (Part 4) By Saul Landau Harvey and I bought cowboy hats for $3 each and tried to pose in them. A young trucker with a tattoo of a hula dancer on his forearm and a…
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Israel-Palestine negotiations test Obama
By Max J. Castro
According to reporting in the Washington Post, “Israeli officials have been stunned by the demands of top Obama officials that Israel halt settlement growth throughout…
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Enlist and die as young as possible, I was advised
Ancient memories (Part 3)
By Saul Landau
Harvey and I rode in a truck cab along Highway 66 through a mixture of citrus groves and housing construction. San Bernardino County morphed…
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Bringing Cuba in from the cold
An editorial from the Boston Globe
The invitation to membership extended to Cuba Wednesday by the Organization of American States was long overdue. The United States' effort to…
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Obama reaches out to Muslim world
By Bill Press
One of the greatest challenges facing President Obama when he took office was restoring America's standing among other nations, especially our standing in the Arab and…
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Health care is a right, not a privilege
By Bernie Sanders
From OpEdNews.com
Let's be clear. Our health care system is disintegrating. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with…
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Obama hits home run with Sotomayor
By Bill Press
Maybe I just have too much empathy. But I admit shedding a couple of tears, standing in the East Room of the White House and watching the first African-American president…
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