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We have just begun the tenth year of occupation in Afghanistan. Despite the declared “end” to combat operations, American soldiers are still dying in Iraq as encounters with insurgents …

Part of a Triple Crisis series leading up to the Nov. 11-12 G-20 meetings.

Global temperatures are projected rise 3.5 degrees C. over the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, meaning that governments worldwide will have failed in their pledge …

After MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann from “Countdown” for making contributions to political campaigns, activists and pundits on both sides of the aisle used the occasion to speak out on …

New York - Putting local police on the “front lines” of immigration enforcement is distracting federal agencies from their objectives by turning over people with no criminal history, or …

In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a …

I’m finding it difficult to write about the recent foreclosure mess in the United States. Amid the revelations in October that so many mortgage lenders might have been sloppy …

Pentagon Study Shows Repealing “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” Is Not Dangerous

Interview with distinguished professor of sociology Stanley Aronowitz at the City University of New York. He evokes the reasons for Barack Obama's Democrats in the midterm elections. Bruno …

Overstating the importance of a midterm election is understandably tempting for politicians and pundits, especially when the partisan turnover reaches historic proportions, as it indisputably did on Nov. 2. …