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(Photo: Justen Eason / Flickr) The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised the slogan of “We are the 99 percent” and coined the catchphrase that articulates the …

The new One Bank of America Center in Charlotte, N.C., April 11, 2011. (Photo: Chris Keane / The New York Times) Do you know who Elizabeth Duke …

Last night, I saw the power of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) at Lincoln Center Plaza, a public space that activists were barricaded by the New York Police Department (NYPD) …

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) On Wednesday night, the Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment introduced by Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley …

On 22 May, 2007, The Guardian UK's front page announced: “Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran …

US soldiers fire a 105mm artillery barrage toward an insurgent rocket position near the Pakistan border, at Forward Operating Base Tillman, Afghanistan, October 7, 2011. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / …

He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. He died in a hospital in …

As images rolled in this week of the Egyptian authorities' assault on protesters in Tahrir Square, observers in the United States could not escape thoughts of the official violence …

On November 28, the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) opened its 16th session in The Hague, Netherlands. Information on it can …

If you want to solve the perplexing mystery of modern-day America – and understand what went so terribly wrong – an important place to look for clues would be …