News and Analysis from the United States
CEOs are living the good life. On the company’s dime. America’s 100 best-paid corporate chiefs got an 18.7 percent boost in their perks packages, according to a survey of executive pay performed by Equilar for The New York Times. Those perks,… Read More ›
Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then. “Afghan heroin… Read More ›
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of… Read More ›
Are we primed for war? Here’s everything you need to know about our current — and past — relationship with DPRK BY TIM SHORROCK We all know it’s a crisis. Every night this week, NBC, CBS and every other media outlet… Read More ›
The estimated 50 million Americans already living in poverty will be hit hardest by the $85 billion in spending cuts set to begin after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement over the most effective way to address the… Read More ›
By Stephen Gowans In an April 3 Wall Street Journal article, “U.S. dials back on Korean show of force,” reporters Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes revealed that the White House approved a detailed plan, called ‘the playbook,’ to ratchet… Read More ›
A cold rain, massive law enforcement presence, and a malfunctioning bullhorn put a damper on a Ku Klux Klan rally of about 75 people protesting the renaming of Civil War parks including the one named for Nathan Bedford Forrest Saturday…. Read More ›
KFC manager’s version changes Written by Emily Le Coz A Tupelo woman hired earlier this month by a KFC was fired Monday after the franchise owner discovered she’s homeless. Eunice Jasica has been staying at the Salvation Army lodge since early… Read More ›
The United States says it has deployed a second guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean Peninsula as tensions mount with North Korea. On Monday, US defense officials said that the USS John McCain was being positioned… Read More ›
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING — It seems scary, even crazy: talk of a “sea of fire” and an “arc of destruction,” nuclear missiles slamming into distant shores. North Korea, an “isolated state,” as we’re constantly told by media reports, hurls… Read More ›
No Changes in North Korean Military Mobilization by Jason Ditz Though the White House conceded that the rhetoric coming out of North Korea has not been followed with any significant changes to their mobilization, the US continues to deploy military… Read More ›
An outrageous (but perhaps unsurprising) audio recording was played for jurors in the big federal lawsuit against the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy yesterday. The recording, made secretly last month by Officer Pedro Serrano in the 40th Precinct station house in the South Bronx,… Read More ›
South Korea has changed its rules of engagement ordering its troops to immediately respond to provocations from the North. Following the deployment of F-22 stealth fighters, the US has now sent a destroyer into Korean coastal waters. On Monday, the… Read More ›
The protests against Golden Dawn around the world gained much media attention, including the one in Chicago where you were the key note speaker. What happened at this Jan. 19th event? Well, I was the “MC” for want of a… Read More ›
A prominent analyst says the United States will be responsible if the state of war on the divided Korean Peninsula escalates into a world war, Press TV reports. “The question is whether or not the United States as a superpower wants to… Read More ›
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