USA

By Glenn Greenwald From the British newspaper The Guardian The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of…
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By Erika Eichelberger, Maggie Severns and Brett Brownell From Mother Jones If you're one of the 37 million Americans with student loan debt, you're in for a real treat come July 1.…
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By Bill Press Say it ain't so. There has never been a sadder day in American politics. Political reporters are still in shock over Michele Bachmann's sudden announcement that she…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - Today’s reactionary Republican Party isn’t given to literary flights of fancy. But its latest assault on the tattered remains of the always…
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By Saul Landau My parents, like many millions more who voted for Franklin Roosevelt and ousted Republican Herbert Hoover, sat glued to their radios to hear FDR’s first…
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By Saul Landau This country has officially taken on the rest of the world. As U.S. military units fight, or threaten to fight, alleged foes belonging to jihadist groups most…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – Last April, while the bodies of 20 children and 8 adults massacred in Newton, Conn., were still warm, the U.S. Senate voted against establishing a…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada NEW YORK – The CIA has become a "paramilitary service" where more than half of the agents recruited after 2001 are…
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By Bill Press One of many good things you can say about President Obama is that he is loyal to his friends. But sometimes, he is loyal to a fault, as is the case with Attorney…
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By Jessica Gresko From The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an American imprisoned in Cuba against the U.S. government,…
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