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Dear Comrade Fidel Castro,
August 4, 2006We wish to extend to you and the Cuban people our very best wishes for a speedy recovery from your recent surgery. We hope you will be able to quickly resume your invaluable work in the...
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Required watching: How DeLay stole Congress
August 4, 2006MovieREVIEWThe Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress Produced, directed and edited by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck Brave New Films, 2006 Available on DVDFeaturing Tom DeLay grinning like a Cheshire cat throughout the film, “The Big...
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The political trial of Andrea Yates
August 4, 2006On July 26 a Houston jury found Andrea Yates not guilty of murder, by reason of insanity, in the 2001 drowning of her five children. Yates will likely spend the rest of her life in a...
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Disability rights and the civil rights revolution
August 4, 2006Those of us who come from the first wave of disability rights advocates began our struggle within the civil rights movement of the 1960s. We learned an important lesson from that movement as to how a...
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The Middle East in crisis
August 4, 2006As I write, Israeli bombing, with the full encouragement of the Bush administration, continues in violation of Israel’s own supposed 48-hour moratorium — a moratorium precipitated by world revulsion to the shocking deaths of dozens of...
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