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Obama Walks In Wrong Direction

Arnold Hamilton - February 9, 2011 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America’s avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and show deference to the business establishment. Apparently, his ongoing obsequiousness is an effort to woo corporate […]

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Romantic Revolutions

Arnold Hamilton - February 9, 2011 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH In the first days of the demonstrations in Egypt, almost everyone I know was glued to their television. Many of them were caught up in what they saw as the romanticism of the moment: students and young people in the streets, willing to risk their lives to stand up to a tyrannical […]

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Holy Wars

Arnold Hamilton - February 9, 2011 0

BY KAREN WEBB No matter how many people are out of work or how many people lack health care or how bad the economic situation...

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Will To Make A Difference

Arnold Hamilton - February 8, 2011 1

BY SHARON MARTIN In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt did Americans a remarkable service when he signed the executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration. Because of...

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Where Spanish Is A Threatened Language

Arnold Hamilton - February 8, 2011 0

BY FROMA HARROP The ice, snow and sleet that paralyzed American aviation last week forced upon me two extra days in tropical Puerto Rico. Somehow I managed. And so did the legions of other Americans and Canadians sharing stories of canceled flights as they contentedly drank cafe con leche in the warm sun of Plaza […]