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Unlike Zimbabwe, the US can easily get the currency it needs without being beholden to anyone. But wouldn't that dilute the value of the currency? No. A month ago, …

A classified cable from the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia released by WikiLeaks lays bare an embassy that is biased against the Evo Morales government, underestimates the sophistication …

The crisis in the eurozone is leading, once again, to the adoption of policies such as bail-outs and austerity that belong to the neoliberal paradigm that partly precipitated the …

“The problem here is to define ... a form of life that would not depend on an unsustainable relation of domination over the rest of the world.” Jean Bricmont …

The November drop in retail employment suggests that sales were inflated by an early holiday season.

Last month, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a blistering report that documented a secret drug interdiction program in Peru that was responsible for the death of an American …

The US national debt is the outstanding total of each year’s deficits in the federal government’s budgets (where deficit simply means the difference between federal expenditures and tax receipts). …

Washington - The House of Representatives voted Thursday 234-188 for a tax cut for the middle class and the poor — but not the very rich — a vote …

Well-versed in obstructing help to the hungry, House Republicans first blocked, then voted against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act yesterday, a bill that “would give more needy children the …

The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his syndicated column, "Why wasn't …