Environment

James Henry: Bailout deal includes capital controls and punishing big Russian depositors to pay off European banks.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Israel needed Obama to broker Turkey deal as Netanyahu's policies and unstable region put Israel in a precarious position.

Why do they call for governments to balance the budget by pushing the economy at large deeper into debt, while trying to save the banks from taking a loss?

Thom Hartmann comments on the news for Monday, March 25, 2013.

It seems an appropriate time to consider how we got to this scary place, and how we can get out.

Dismantling the governmental policies and global trade rules that have taken agriculture out of the hands of small farmers the world over is the prerequisite for claiming a just …

We want an informed electorate, and everyone should read it and even carry the small pamphlet around.

Cleanup continues at the site of an underground spill of thousands of gallons of pollution related to the oil and gas industry in the heart of Colorado's fracking country.

Reviewer finds author's prescriptions for peace in the Middle East inadequate in ‘Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East.’

Monsanto is creating a world in which people have to pay the corporation in order to grow or consume food.