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Chomsky: “Obama Is Running The Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists” Noam Chomsky said yesterday: The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in histo ...[Read more]
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Our nation's singular focus on terrorism has led to various branches of the government and counterterrorism pundits declaring all sorts of things to be warning signs of terrorist activity. Here's a short (but by no means all-inclusive) list of activities ...[Read more]
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Following criticism by The Electronic Intifada of how it handled Majd Kayyal’s case, The New York Times is forced to review its policies on observing Israeli gag orders censoring. ...[Read more]
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Warren Buffett once claimed that the "genius of the American economy, our emphasis on a meritocracy and a market system and a rule of law has enabled generation after generation to live better than their parents did." The Economist suggested that "people ...[Read more]
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Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel ...[Read more]
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Teachers are having to bring in food to give their pupils breakfast every day because they are too hungry and exhausted to learn as a result of increased poverty, according to a report out today.
The survey, by the National Association of Schoolmasters Un ...[Read more]
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The conventional wisdom says that most Latin American migrants who come to the United States are looking for a better life, inspired by the "American Dream." And it's hard to deny that there's a lot of truth in that.
But there's another side to the story ...[Read more]
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Economist Thomas Piketty's new book has stunned both the economic profession and most political observers. But the economic mainstream is not truly dealing with its most serious implications. ...[Read more]
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Soon after the 2004 US coup to depose President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, I heard Aristide's lawyer Ira Kurzban speaking in Miami. He began his talk with a riddle: "Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?" The answer: "Because there i ...[Read more]
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After Jaime Grimes found out in January that her monthly food stamps would be cut again, this time by $40, the single mother of four broke down into sobs — then she took action.
The former high school teacher made a plan to stretch her family’s meager ...[Read more]
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In 2012, the current British Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Owen Paterson called concerns over the use of GM foods “complete nonsense” in an outright attack on valid concerns about GMOs (1). Since then, through comments and speeches, he ...[Read more]
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