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It is bad enough that, by delaying reconstruction aid to Haiti, the United States has failed to give adequate assistance to our neighbor, which was struck by a devastating …

A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. …

Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It …

Let us begin with a “defining moment,” courtesy of the Oxford World Dictionary: Commissariat (kÉ’mɪˈsɛːrɪət) Definition: chiefly Military department for the supply of food and equipment. Origin: late …

Whose moral hazards, which moral buzzards? Is it a good idea to let the foreclosures roll on? Absolutely, say the banking and mortgage industries, among others. “Home repo” is …

With millions of homeowners still struggling to stay in their homes, the Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure prevention program has been weakened, perhaps fatally, by lax oversight and a …

Who says the corporate media doesn't care about the opinions of ordinary people? There have been lots of articles lately about what workers think, written by the people who …

In another misstep of the historic failure of Plan Colombia and the US supported War on Drugs, Colombia is training thousands of Mexican soldiers, police and court officials in …

JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Washington, DC As Prepared …

In the Fall of 2009 I had the privilege of following a delegation of US veterans and war resisters traveling to Israel/Palestine to meet with their Israeli counterparts in …