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Friendshipment en route to Cuba, breaking U.S. blockade

July 15, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, which has lasted 50 years, targets people.

On the Bayou, BP oil spill hasn’t gone away

July 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

Eric Guzman carries himself like any healthy 35-year-old, but his eyes tell you he's been through what only someone much older would normally have experienced.

Retired, but fighting: ARA stands up for Social Security (video)

July 15, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Barbara Easterling, president of the 4-million-member Alliance for Retired Americans, tells it like it is about Social Security and the budget crisis.

Bachmann and Santorum spark furor over slavery, “family values”

July 14, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

How much slack are voters likely to cut Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum for signing a racist, gay-bashing "family values" pledge as they pandered to the bigots in their campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination?

Wisconsin recalls, round one: Dems sweep

July 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg And Dominique Paul Noth

Despite GOP shenanigans, labor-backed Democratic State Senate hopefuls swept six races in the first round of Wisconsin's state recall elections.