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Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions on Share Buybacks to Enrich Executives
Even as Republicans and CEOs of major companies complain that taxes are stifling job creation, corporations have been sitting on trillions of dollars in cash reserves, at some of …
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The American Behind India’s 9/11 – And How the US Botched Chances to Stop Him
Prologue: Justice Denied During a meeting overseas last summer, a senior U.S. official and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of Pakistan’s armed forces, discussed a threat …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Occupy Wall Street is Bringing Down the Big Banks, and More (2)
In today's On the News segment: Occupy Wall Street is bringing down the big banks, Gang of 12 SuperCommittee failed to come up with a compromise, according to a …
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Slanting the Case on Iran’s Nukes
As Washington’s political/media class rises up in arms over new WMD allegations against Iran, it might be worth recalling how a similar process played out nearly a decade ago …
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Pull of Family Reshapes US-Cuban Relations
Miami - For two consecutive years, Stephanie Várcia, 11, a sixth grader here, has done something that was unimaginable five years ago. She has spent four weeks in Havana, …
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Sequestering Military Spending
In its final stages, debate over the supercommittee has boiled down to squeezing new revenues out of millionaires vs. cutting the social safety net. The largest portion of the …
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Santorum: “All the People Who Live in the West Bank are Israelis“
In a recorded conversation during a Friday campaign stop in Iowa, former Republican senator Rick Santorum offered a surprisingly hawkish set of foreign policy views (even for Santorum) on …
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Uncoordinated Coordination: Six Reasons Limits on Super PACs Are Barely Limits at All
Ask any campaign-finance expert about Super PACs and you’ll likely keep hearing one word: “coordination.” That’s because Super PACs — the super-powered groups that can raise and spend unlimited …
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Neo-Paramilitary Gangs Ratchet Up Their Threat to Colombian Civil Society and the Long Term Survival of Civic Rectitude in the Public Arena
The Colombian government enacted Decree 128 and the Justice and Peace Law to launch and subsequently monitor the demobilization process, which failed under the Uribe administration, and led to …
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Republicans Push Anti-Union Law in Indiana
Republican leaders in Indiana on Monday declared as their top legislative priority making Indiana a “right to work” state, setting the stage for a new battle over union rights …