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By Greg Palast From Truthout.org Tell me where it hurts, Mr. President. What's killing you, Barack, is what's killing us all: an evil germ called "Medical Loss Ratio." "Medical Loss…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The right wing in the United States took a perverse glee at the early elimination of Chicago as the site of the 2016 Olympic Games. They laughed and…
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A late September morning with Fidel (Final Part) ‘Consumerism can’t coexist with planetary survival’ By Saul Landau After Fidel Castro’s abdominal surgery in the summer of 2006,…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. O.K., maybe not literally the worst, but definitely bad. And the contrast between the…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera It is no secret that the topic of emigration has been at the center of the debates in Cuba for the past 50 years and that, at present, many believe that a…
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In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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From Havana The other side of the numbers By Manuel Alberto Ramy Last Aug. 6, I published in this column an article titled "Meditating on the basis of numbers," where I pointed out…
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A Progreso Weekly exclusive By Aurelio Pedroso What a coincidence. According to a not-so-recent census, there's almost 12 million Cubans (Havana has almost 2 million), and right in…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera The ambiguity of U.S. policy in the case of Honduras, along with the installation of seven military bases in Colombia, have not only caught off-guard some…
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