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Reporters and editors from The New York Times offered context and analysis on President
You could, of course, sit there, slack-jawed, thinking about how mindlessly repetitive American foreign and military policy is these days.
The State of the Union is strong.
Touré, co-host of The Cycle on MSNBC, took a hard line in favor of drones today.
Libertarian folk hero and retired Rep. Ron Paul is fighting to take the domain name RonPaul.com from a legion of loyal supporters. And he's turning to an unlikely source for help, filing a complaint with an agency of the United Nations -- a body he's
The drone war underscores the essential evil of American imperialism
Think you might someday get breast cancer? There's a quick fix for that: Chop 'em off! It's called a "preventive double mastectomy" and surgeons are right now successfully convincing women who don't even have breast cancer to have both their breasts
Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet Does the United States still have the same level of control over the energy resources of the Middle East as it once had?
Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world?
January 31, 1968 marked the beginning of the end….
Leslie Morgan Steiner was in “crazy love” -- that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life.
Why should we worry if jihadists control a poor, landlocked country thousands of miles away?
Today is Tim Geithner's last day as Treasury Secretary. Below are some quotes from various exit interviews and recaps conducted with the former NY Fed president.
The US has lots of troubles dealing with other nations as they haven’t come to grips with the new global reality, Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro told RT in an exclusive interview.
We live in a time of heavy fog. A time when, though many of us dissent and resist, humanity seems committed to a course of collective suicide in the name of preserving an economic system that generates scarcity no matter how much is actually produced
Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama’s political formula should be obvious.
Oh Good Ghod, I actually heard this live:
Max Keiser talks to Alex Jones about his appearance on Piers Morgan’s show on CNN. They also discuss the targeting of activists and the role of new media taking on the dinosaurs of media.
Once again, we have people using a tragedy to push personal agendas; they have little respect for the victims of those tragedies or their respective families and friends.
Alex isn't really my style (I like him, but not the drama), but this is packed with information:
"What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago." - President Obama
Worth remembering on MLK day is his vehement opposition to the ruthless American terrorism in Indochina. He called it “the destruction of Vietnam.” Hear and read his famous speech, delivered on April 4, 1967.
People have all kinds of theories for why Washington DC has gotten so dysfunctional in recent years.
A 'cult,' according to Merriam-Webster, can be defined as "Great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work..(and)..a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion."
Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967--We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values…when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people,...........
A strategic perspective for a peace movement that matters
Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky has been America’s premier political dissident since the Vietnam War. As a vocal critic of US foreign policy, the self-described “libertarian socialist” has been beloved by generations of students and activists.
Aaron Swartz called me in early May 2011 — I was an editor at Wired then covering privacy, crime, and security – asking if he could give me some information under embargo.
We are prepared to endow celebrities with fame and glory beyond the hopes of ordinary mortals, but the moment we are done with them, we are done with them.