News and Analysis from the United States
KABUL — In a country where Western accusations of corruption have been lobbed at high-ranking officials and public institutions, the malfeasance that drives Afghans against their own government happens every day on a much smaller scale. Forget special investigations and glossy reports… Read More ›
Three-and-a-half million dollars will be paid out to the family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a poorly-executed SWAT raid nearly five years ago. As part of a settlement in a case involving the 2008 death of 33-year-old… Read More ›
Graham’s office insisted that the senator did not disclose any classified information [EPA] Revelation by Lindsey Graham marks the first time any US official has given a number for drone fatalities. A US senator has said that an estimated 4,700… Read More ›
Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Brendan Smialowski) United States President Barack Obama has no plans to show Congress the legal rulings that justify his use of drones to kill US citizens, despite urging from members of his own political party…. Read More ›
image from http://electronicintifada.net IDF is yet again on the defensive over its troops’ use of social media, after an elite regiment soldier posted pictures of himself half-naked, and smoking drugs on his Instagram, and boasted about killing an Arab… Read More ›
You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains. This means the gains went…somewhere else. See if you can guess who got… Read More ›
Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The… Read More ›
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Africa Studio In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory:… Read More ›
Yemeni soldiers during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 4, 2011. (Hani Mohammed/AP Photo) By AVNI PATEL Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. military financing will continue to flow to Yemen and three other countries that recruit and use child soldiers, despite… Read More ›
Revelations made by journalist Bill Deane in new book ‘Smooth Criminal’ It tells story of alleged CIA spy and ‘one-man crime wave’ Dave Riley Claims criminals allowed on ‘crime sprees’ in US when not working for CIA Deane: ‘Riley was typical recruit:… Read More ›
A United Nations committee says the US military is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children in Afghanistan over the past four years. A United Nations committee has accused the United States government of being responsible for the deaths… Read More ›
Seems like trouble is brewing for Ron Paul and his liberty-loving acolytes. In two separate incidents this week, it appears that Rep. Paul is proving things aren’t always as sunny as they seem in Paul-idise. The first situation started when… Read More ›
For more than twenty years now, the “free market” has been the rallying cry of American politics. Conservatives sing its praises while occasionally betraying it when it suits their constituency, liberals won’t criticize it but claim that it needs to… Read More ›
AFP Photo / China out China has passed the US as the world’s biggest trading nation as measured by the sum of exports and imports in 2012. It’s a position the US has held for over six decades. US exports… Read More ›
Paul Lewis and Rob Evans The mother of the real Rod Richardson, who died at two days old, fears an officer assumed his identity to pose as an activist Rod Richardson celebrated his 29th birthday in style on 5 January 2002. After… Read More ›
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