Opinion
Follow Jimmy Carter’s initiative on Cuba
April 5, 2011Former President Jimmy Carter's call for ending the U.S. economic blockade of the island and freeing the Cuban Five is a major breakthrough.
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Humanitarian intervention or regime change?
April 5, 2011I was suspicious of the UN Security Council's establishment of a Libya no fly zone from the beginning, and events seem to be proving me right.
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“Miral”: controversial film paints Middle East mirage
April 5, 2011Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's latest venture onto the screen is a controversial adaptation of Rula Jebreal's novelistic memoir of her childhood and youth beginning just around the time of the Nakba, otherwise known as Israel's...
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It’s not just Wisconsin: a nationwide counteroffensive is emerging
April 4, 2011It is fair to say a new phase of a struggle is afoot, in which labor and its allies could turn the tables decisively in their favor.
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Tax-deductible invasions
April 1, 2011However, there is a solution to knowing if Americans want a war or not. Tax checkoff.
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