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Reports in Arab media seem to suggest that Syrian President Hafez Assad, who took over the leadership from his dictatorial father in 2000, is not going to step down …

Obama Launches Re-Election Campaign The Hill reports that President Barack Obama on Monday officially announced that he would be running for a second term in the White …

Arizona might be giving the anti-immigrant attacks a rest in its legislature, but out on the streets not much has changed. On Tuesday Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced …

Washington - In an about face on the day President Barack Obama announced his re-election bid, a U.S. official said Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder will order military …

[A longer version of this essay appears in “Lines of Work,” the Spring 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that …

Libya's leader Col. Moammar Qaddafi shakes hands with supporters upon arrival at a tent-like convention hall on the grounds of the Rixos Al Nasr Tripoli Hotel before presiding over …

(Photo: hrbsir) Many green groups and other science-based analysts criticized President Obama's recent State of the Union speech for failing to mention the imminent catastrophe of climate …

Terry Jones, the man who sparked an international furor in Afghanistan by burning a Muslim holy book and showing it on the Internet, was back in the pulpit Sunday. …

Bravo Test over Enewetak, Marshall Islands, Operation Castle, March 1, 1954. Designed specifically to generate the largest possible cloud of fallout, the Bravo test was the first detonation of …

Washington - So far, our nation's budget debate has been a desultory affair focused on whether a small slice of the federal government's outlays should be cut by $33 …