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31 August 2010
35 years after war, America influences Vietnam
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Richard S. Ehrlich
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Cheap facsimiles of $100 bills waft in the tropical breeze, littering sidewalks with Benjamin Franklin's face.

Elsewhere, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has become a gritty fashion icon, giving...
26 August 2010
Viktor Bout avoids an immediate boot to America
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- American officials hoping to extradite Viktor Bout on Wednesday (August 25) were unable to fly the suspected Russian weapons smuggler to New York, because the U.S. added fresh allegations against him which must...
25 August 2010
Five years and still drowning: The New Orleans CNN would never show you
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Greg Palast
It's been five years already. In New Orleans, more than half the original residents have not, cannot, return.

"They don't want no poor niggers back in - that's the bottom line."

And that's Malik Rahim, Director...
21 August 2010
"Lord of War" Viktor Bout's extradition to New York
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Thai court agreed on Friday (August 20) to extradite Viktor Bout to New York, after the Russian was arrested in a Bangkok hotel during a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sting for allegedly planning to sell...
19 August 2010
See something, say something
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James Hanson
The Department of Homeland Security says this is a motto for patriots, which is what I’ve always tried to be. After a lot of looking, I’m saying something.

I saw a large airplane crash into the South Tower, Building Two, of...
12 August 2010
A Cuban adventure with Lee Lockwood
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Saul Landeau
In July 1967, I met Lee Lockwood at the Mexico City ticket counter of Cubana de Aviacion. He had black curly hair, a confident almost smug look and he toted camera bags. “I loved your book, the best, most honest book on Cuba,” (Castro’s...

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