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Blown Chances in Gaza: Israel and the US Miss Many Chances to Avoid War
Alongside the toll of death and broken lives, perhaps the saddest reality of the latest Gaza war is how easy it would have been to avoid.
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California Drought Leaves Farmworkers Hung Out to Dry
California's ongoing drought is another blow to hundreds of thousands of farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants, that are struggling to survive.
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What “Orange Is the New Black” Got Wrong About Compassionate Release
Contrary to what “Orange is the New Black” would have you think, compassionate release is not simply the act of taking an aging, senile person and dumping her onto …
Is Human Rights Watch Too Close to the US Government?
Human Rights Watch continues to face charges from activists, including Nobel Laureates, who say the group is too close to Washington to criticize US foreign policy.
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US Loses Track of Weapons Shipped to Afghanistan
Three separate systems are used to track the arms sent to Afghanistan, but they are riddled with errors and not linked.
Utility Trade Group Funds ALEC Attack on Americans Using Solar
Although ALEC recently proclaimed it was being falsely portrayed as “anti-clean energy,” the latest revelations confirm that ALEC continues to pursue a polluters' wish list, despite its PR pronouncements.
Bungling Toward Oblivion: A Letter to My Friends in Russia
Empathy is a human quality that is best engendered through a personal acquaintance with individuals.
Greece: A Nation for Sale and the Death of Democracy
The savage methods of alleged “economic efficiency” and privatization increase neither efficiency nor competition, but do lead to price increases for consumers, higher costs for government, corruption, embezzlement and …
Nobel Peace Laureates Slam Human Rights Watch’s Refusal to Cut Ties to US Government
You all but advocated military intervention on social media, while maintaining plausible deniability in the context of a climate of warmongering.
Afghans Don’t Like Soybeans, Despite a Big US Push
Washington ignored plentiful warnings that the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars would fail to convince Afghans to embrace protein-rich soy products.