Marc Cooper on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/28/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-13T08:01:46+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Marc Cooper on the Fate of Cesar Chavez’s Dream http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_marc_cooper_on_the_fate_of_cesar_chavezs_dream/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_marc_cooper_on_the_fate_of_cesar_chavezs_dream/ book, cesar chavez, marc cooper, miriam pawel, review, the union of their dreams, ufw, united farm workers, Book Review bookcover

In her important new book, Miriam Pawel chronicles how a movement to unionize farmworkers failed to realize its charismatic founder’s vision as his relatives turned a union into a family business.

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]]> 2009-11-13T08:01:46+00:00 Marc Cooper on Hugo Chavez http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071011_marc_cooper_on_hugo_chavez/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071011_marc_cooper_on_hugo_chavez/ book, castro, chavez, cooper, democracy, iran, oil, politics, review, venezuela, Book Review Hugo Chavez

A former translator for Chile’s Salvador Allende reviews three books evaluating the remarkable rise of Venezuela’s irrepressible Hugo Chavez.

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]]> 2007-10-11T23:59:00+00:00 Marc Cooper: Bush’s Immigration Speech Is Bad Policy, Bad Politics http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060515_marc_cooper_immigration_speech/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060515_marc_cooper_immigration_speech/ cooper, immigration, marc, speech, American flag at the U.S.-Mexico border

One of the nation’s leading experts on immigration policy writes that Bush’s May 15 speech “had nothing to do with actual border policy and everything to do with domestic electoral politics.”
Instead of sending National Guard troops to the border, “Bush could have saved the taxpayers a load and sent a few battalions of Boy Scouts to do this job.”

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]]> 2006-05-16T01:32:00+00:00 The Great Immigration Debate: Getting Beyond Denial http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060228_great_immigration_debate/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060228_great_immigration_debate/ amnesty, border, citizenship, conservatives, debate, immigration, patrol, u.s., undocumented, workers, Politics Border Patrol Immigration

Marc Cooper peels away the myths shrouding the U.S. immigration debate.

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]]> 2006-03-15T07:07:00+00:00 Bachelet: Si y No http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bachelet_si_y_no_20060116/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bachelet_si_y_no_20060116/ bachelet, chile, economic reform, lagos, pinochet, social reform, socialism, The election of Socialist pediatrician Michelle Bachelet as president is good news for the people of Chile. Especially given the alternatives.

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]]> 2006-01-16T17:31:01+00:00 A New Ally for the Latin American Left http://www.truthdig.com/dig/blogitem/20060109_morales_digblog/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/blogitem/20060109_morales_digblog/ free-market, government, hugo chavez, leftist, opposition, socialist, south america, venezuelan, venezuela Since the original posting of the piece, in early December, events have moved very quickly in South America. Marc Cooper has provided an update.

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]]> 2006-01-09T16:00:00+00:00 Booking Pinochet http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20051230_pinochet/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20051230_pinochet/ chilean, democracy, dictator, justice, military, pinochet, repression, society, trial, vote, The bloody Chilean dictator is a whisker away from trial. Marc Cooper weighs in on the significance of the recent booking of the 90-year-old General Augusto Pinochet.

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]]> 2005-12-30T20:13:00+00:00 More to Come From Marc Cooper http://www.truthdig.com/dig/blogitem/more_from_marc_cooper/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/blogitem/more_from_marc_cooper/ comments, follow-up, marc cooper, venezuela Follow-up to your comments will be posted here.

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]]> 2005-12-14T15:08:00+00:00 The Big Blowup Over Venezuela http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200512_venezuela_chavez/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200512_venezuela_chavez/ ally, bolivia, democracy, evo morales, hugo chavez, latin america, socialism, venezuela, venezuela Hugo Chavez with Evo Morales

Update:  Hugo Chavez and the Latin American left picked up an important new ally when, a few weeks ago, peasant leader Evo Morales (shown at right here) was elected as president of Bolivia.

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