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Indigenous Lakota Women Face Harsh Winter Wrath Under Climate Change
Pine Ridge, South Dakota - U.S. Oglala Sioux Lakota Elder women and families suffering from severe poverty are bracing themselves to face a harsh winter season spurred on by …
Negotiating With Nut Jobs
In the witty 1966 classic cult film King of Hearts, a British soldier shows up in a French village run by lunatics after they'd escaped from the local insane …
In Iraq, US Calls for Kurdish Leader to Step Aside
Baghdad - Iraq’s divided political leaders met Monday for the first time since March elections in a bid to break an eight-month deadlock that has left Iraqis with no …
Ex-Lax for Bankers? How the Banks Trumped Keynes
Oh, what to do about unemployment? Try as it might to pump money into the economy and spur hiring, the Fed’s policy ain’t working. Don’t blame Keynes. For the …
Tea Party Test: Korea Free Trade Agreement
The “Tea Party” will face many tests when the new Congress convenes next year. Everyone is asking, how long will it take before the Tea Party officeholders are co-opted …
Khalil Bendib | Money Bags
Thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling, candidates for office in the United States accept unlimited donations from unspecified sources.
Justifying the Unspeakable
The list of dubious choices made by President Obama during his first two years in office is breathtaking in scope. But nothing he has done - not the expansion …
Australia’s Hazardous Road to Climate Action
We are a contradictory species, and no more so than here in Australia. The nation that gave birth to green politics is also among the planet’s top carbon polluters …
A Progressive-Tea Party Foreign Policy Coalition? Don’t Hold Your Breath (2)
For those of us who wearied of the “rejection of progressivism” storyline tailing the midterm election results before even the first votes were counted, a new and potentially more …
Eugene Robinson | Wanted: Mojo All Around
Washington - Last week, voters made a powerful statement about leadership: They'd like some, please. So far, there's no evidence that either President Obama or the top Republicans in …