News Analysis

Selina Sharmin, a librarian with the Queens Borough Public Library who was laid off because of budget cuts. (Photo: Marcus Yam / The New York Times) Last …

(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Miguel Vieira, Expert Infantry) By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy ... Yet, the …

(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Angela Wolf) I see it coming. As President Obama gives his speech on how important it is for the government and the …

Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Europeans certainly do. As Europe struggles to contain its government debt crisis, the greatest fear is that one of the Continent’s …

With gold prices soaring to around USD 1,600 per ounce, Colombia has made a concerted effort to stimulate foreign investment in its mining sector.[1] As a result, the Colombian …

Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the horrific gas pipeline explosion that killed 8 people in the Bay Area city of San Bruno was the …

Should the US government be building more nuclear weapons? Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don’t appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against …

Washington - Proponents and opponents of the fiercely debated Keystone XL pipeline agree on at least one point. The next three months will be crucial in bolstering their respective …

In the wake of the dubious UN investigatory report which all but exonerated Israel for its 31 May 2010 attack on the Mavi Marmara–an attack that killed 8 Turkish …

A top investigator for the Senate Finance Committee, working under Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), may have had smoking gun evidence of News Corp’s hacking activity. While News Corp’s British …