USA

By Saul Landau Washington’s national security elite seethe and fume with resentment and frustration. Pakistan receives billions of U.S. aid dollars and remains a training ground for…
Read More...

(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpted version of an article that appeared in The Huffington Post produced by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.) For all of Goldman Sachs’ professed…
Read More...

By Mark Engler From Dissent Magazine Answer me this: Do progressives have anything to lose by opposing Elena Kagan as too conservative to be a satisfactory pick for the Supreme…
Read More...

By Alan Fram WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegal immigrants are a boon, not a burden to the country, a resounding majority of Hispanics say, according to an Associated Press-Univision Poll that…
Read More...

By Bill Press Farewell to the Tea Party. It was fun while it lasted. It certainly got a lot of undue media attention. But it died a premature, yet welcome, death. Ironically, what…
Read More...

By Saul Landau Joe, whose business has gone bad, borrows $100 from Mike. The next day he borrows another $100. Some months later, he pays Mike $100 and says:“Business has picked up.…
Read More...

By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com The result of these converging factors—the mad rush for oil and the irresponsibility of BP and of the laissez-faire Bush-Cheney administration—has…
Read More...

By John McAuliff Florida politics have consistently crippled hopes for a rational U.S. policy on Cuba. The swing state mystique confounds Presidential candidates and PAC money from…
Read More...

By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from…
Read More...

By Saul Landau I propose President Obama end the war against terrorism and admit the phrase means “Muslims should scare you!” For example, the media recently showed a documentary film…
Read More...