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The Real Roots of the CIA’s Rendition and Black Sites Program
On Tuesday, February 10, the British High Court finally released a “seven-paragraph court document showing that MI5 officers were involved in the ill-treatment of a British resident, Binyam Mohamed.” …
Conversation With Daniel Ellsberg: Evaluating Obama So Far
Daniel Ellsberg is definitely a name out of our national past. Baby Boomers immediately conjure up images of the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers. For the younger set, …
Frida Berrigan | America’s Global Weapons Monopoly: Don’t Call it “the Global Arms Trade“
On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, …
David Swanson: Don’t Expect an Election to Change Everything
When Barack Obama was swept into the White House last year on a mandate of hope and change, many progressives believed his arrival meant they could finally roll down …
Anti-Mine Activists Encouraged by Canadian Ruling
Guatamala City - Ecologists in Guatemala see a recent ruling by Canada's Supreme Court, which ordered Canadian mining companies to carry out rigorous environmental assessments, as a positive precedent …
Blood Simple: Columbia University’s Ten-Year Cover-Up of Patient Harm, Conflicts of Interest and Administrative Misconduct
On September 15, 2006, Patricia Sachs Catapano, Esq., an associate general counsel of Columbia University in the City of New York and in-house lawyer for its Medical Center, wrote …
Robert Reich | A Thought on Evan Bayh and Partisan America
Not long ago I was debating someone on television. I thought the discussion was going well until the commercial break when a producer said into my earpiece “be angrier.” …
Speculators Playing With Debt
How speculators make their profits and accumulate fortunes on the backs of the Greek people.
US Brags Haiti Response Is a “Model” While More Than a Million Remain Homeless in Haiti
Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the US Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is quoted at a State …
Forest Biomass: Forest Use or Forest Abuse?
The Taking Tree Chances are you've read Shel Silverstein's “The Giving Tree,” the classic children's story about a boy who keeps taking from a tree - apples for eating, …