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Third Circuit Court Panel Re-Hears Issue of Abu-Jamal’s Death Penalty on Orders of Supreme Court
The three-decades-long murder case of Philadelphia journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has sat in solitary in a cramped cell on Pennsylvania’s death row for 28 years fighting his conviction and …
Iraqis Greet New Government With Feelings of Relief, Betrayal
Baghdad - Iraqis woke up to a new government Friday but the relief of breaking a record political deadlock was tempered by many Sunni voters' sense of betrayal and …
Burmese Democracy Leader Freed, But Next Steps Unsure
Bangkok, Thailand - After killing and enslaving ethnic minorities, illegally pursuing nuclear weapons and rigging a parliamentary election, Burma’s ruling junta could use some positive attention.
Bush Memoir: Why Obama Seems So Smart
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett was the winner of the 2007 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, and was a finalist for the 2008 …
Obama, India and Burma’s “Disciplined Democracy“
Whenever leaders of India and the United States meet, we hear inevitably of the “largest democracy” and the “greatest democracy.” President Barack Obama's visit to India on November 6-8, …
Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: The Triumph of Management Over Leadership
Management divorced from leadership privatizes hope, deskills teachers and treats students as consumers.
Supreme Court Lets “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Stand
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday to leave the military's “don't ask, don't tell” ban on openly gay members in effect while a lower court reviews a federal judge's …
Mark Weisbrot | G-20 Barking Up the Wrong Tree
If the G-20 is going to be nothing more than a talking shop on economic issues, they ought to at least talk about the economic problems that really matter, …
QE2: It’s the Federal Debt, Stupid!
Unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks. It's about saving the country from Greek-like austerity measures necessitated by a burgeoning federal debt.
Alexander Cockburn | A Bitter Woman
Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad's ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush's case, as her eldest son has just …