Opinion

                
  • Obscene profits

    Obscene profits

    February 3, 2006

    Wonder how so much of your paycheck gets siphoned off at the gas pump or burned up heating your home? Wonder no more … this week energy giant ExxonMobil announced record profits of over $36 billion...

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  • Coretta Scott King

    Coretta Scott King

    February 3, 2006

    The grainy black and white television footage and still photographs capture only a snippet of the struggle of millions symbolized by the First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement, Coretta Scott King. A political thinker and...

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  • Oprah takes Bush to woodshed. Rips president over WMD fibs

    Oprah takes Bush to woodshed. Rips president over WMD fibs

    February 3, 2006

    Talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s vengeful side was very much on display as she used her popular TV program to take President George W. Bush to the woodshed over falsehoods about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass...

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  • Taxing the oil companies hot air

    Taxing the oil companies hot air

    February 3, 2006 By Mark Weisbrot And Dean Baker

    Last October 12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to nine major oil companies, asking them to donate part of their record profits to help poor Americans faced with large increases in their heating oil costs this...

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  • U.S. helps terrorists thrive in Miami

    U.S. helps terrorists thrive in Miami

    January 27, 2006

    Commentary Gerardo Hernández, one of the imprisoned anti-terrorist Cuban Five, sends a cartoon that he drew depicting a wall around the United States. Not everybody can get in. A sign says, “Anti-Cuba terrorists only.” Anti-Cuba terrorist...

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