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I write a lot of stories, news mostly. They're carried by InterPress News Service. I've been doing this for a very long time, so I'm usually able to separate …

At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined.

US officials are “probing a possible attempted coverup” in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by US Special Forces accompanied by Afghan …

Washington - The public is zero for seven at the Supreme Court this term. That tally doesn't involve the justices' votes on cases. It's the number of times that …

Marianne2, with France Culture, has presented a series of interviews by Antoine Mercier with various intellectuals on the subject of the economic crisis. To close the series, economist and …

Whether a government or a private company gathers data, Europeans get nervous. Recent controversies over the volume of information about ordinary Europeans that U.S. agencies have demanded in the …

A recent Congressional Research Service analysis obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent months. It's not pretty.

Seven years on after the second US invasion of Iraq, the Americans continue slaughtering civilians, now in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Recently, the video of the massacre of 12-15 Iraqis …

Framing, value shifting, the California budget crisis, and why Democrats so often act like Republicans. This is a case study of how inadequate polling can lead Democrats to accept …

Washington - You might imagine that if a terrorist attack killed an American public servant and threatened the lives of 200 people, it would have been big news for …