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Dilip Hiro | The American Century Is So Over
Irrespective of their politics, flawed leaders share a common trait. They generally remain remarkably oblivious to the harm they do to the nation they lead. George W. Bush is …
Chief Drill Regulator Birnbaum Fired
Washington - The director of the Minerals Management Service, Elizabeth Birnbaum, has been fired in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, a government official told McClatchy Newspapers today. …
Karzai’s Washington Visit: The War Awaiting Kandahar
Clad in his usual attire of a colorful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in Washington. Accompanying him …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Muddle Oozing From the Gulf
Washington - So who is in charge of stopping the oil spill, BP or the federal government? The fact that the answer to this question seems as murky as …
BP Worker Takes Fifth, Making Prosecution a Possibility
Washington - A top BP worker who was aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the hours leading up to the explosion declined to testify in front of a federal panel …
Activists in Chicago Push Against Rahm Emanuel
Activists in Chicago are some of the nation's fiercest agitators for immigration reform, as more than two dozen were arrested at a civil disobedience at the entrance to a …
Froma Harrop | To Fix Immigration, Look North
Ripped from the news: Haitians are illegally crossing into Vermont from Canada, looking for work. Why didn't the Haitians stay in Canada, where the social safety net is far …
Is the Parthenon Sculpture a Permanent Hostage at the British Museum?
On March 8, 2010, Dyfri Williams, Research Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum, delivered a lecture on “The Parthenon Sculptures” at the University of Southern …
The US-Russia START Treaty: Just What Does “Arms Control” Really Mean?
There's a funny if intimidating gun-nut bumper sticker you may have seen on the road: “Gun control means using both hands.” It's clever, invoking and mocking gun control …
Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Corporate Greed
Even as BP's blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the …