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The US bypassed a chance to support a region-wide chemical weapons disarmament agreement in the Middle East when it was proposed by Syria a decade ago, points out Stephen …

Should missile strikes that later cause tens of thousands of civilian casualties and enormous environmental degradation be considered unlawful and against international laws?

u201cPension reformu201d has become the latest battle cry in a seemingly endless war that has ostensibly been declared against tax-dollar waste.

Dean Baker: Without the government bailout we would have seen the end of Wall Street, and possibly the rebirth of our economy.

The oil and gas industry pumps millions of gallons of highly hazardous hydrofluoric acid into wells underground, endangering Americans,

A lack of knowledge certainly does not serve the people, whose interests apparently conflict with those of the developers.

By setting in motion a possibly catastrophic plan to bomb Syria, President Obama has created what amounts to a ‘doomsday machine’ that could detonate if not disarmed by a …

Fast-food workers feed their families on a pittance while the big corporations resist fair pay and sick leave.

The Obama administration released even less information about Syria's alleged chemical weapons attack than the Bush administration did about Iraq's alleged WMD.

President Obama has sidestepped the political hole he had dug for himself (what we might call the “red line” hole) over his proposed attack on Syria. Having insisted there …