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by Michael Winship If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years ago (as opposed to Washington, D.C., where I once got one too many tickets and was sent to pedestrian school). And ...
World
by Ray McGovern It is not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the
example of Harry Truman, who fired Gen. Douglas McArthur in 1951 for
insubordination. Then, as now, the
stakes were high. Then it was
Korea; now it is Afghanistan.
No more slaps on the wrist for Gen. Stanley ...
World
by Glenn Greenwald Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing
political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes
gripped by extremist ideologies. Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian
intelligence agencies allowed secret CIA prisons to be maintained ...
World
Lithuania
CIA
by Danny Schechter Elders are considered wisdom keepers in most of the world's
cultures, perhaps just not our own. They are repositories of important
lessons, keepers of the collective memory, and as such, usually
revered. In our own midst, in our own time, one man deserves all
praises due for ...
World
Barack Obama
by Derrick Z. Jackson In making a fool of President Obama, Big Pharma has turned itself into a poison pill of health care reform. In the summer, the drug companies offered $8 billion a year over 10 years in drug cost cuts, as long as the government did not ask for further reductions in what ...
White House
Barack Obama
by David Michael Green Hey, remember Seinfeld?
Remember how it billed itself as a "show about nothing", and how,
in fact, that's what it was?
I think we're at the
point now where it's become inescapable that the Obama presidency
is also a show about nothing.
It's the same ...
White House
Barack Obama
by David Benjamin Sarah Palin's latest buzz accompanies the
publication of her campaign memoir, Going Rogue. But the book is a
ghost-written collaboration, making it a poor measure of the singular
marvel that is Sarah Palin. To better get the drift of this woman's
weird, wonderful career, I ...
White House
Sarah Palin
by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington read more
World
by Steven Hill The health care debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the
Senate to the House and back again. Now it's back in the Senate, as the
United States tries to end its status as the only advanced economy without
universal health care for its people. One hundred Senators ...
World
Health care
by Kevin Martin President Obama has repeatedly called the US occupation of Afghanistan a "war
of necessity", in contrast to the war of choice his predecessor waged (and of
course is still ongoing) in Iraq.
While I am no mind-reader, I'm not sure the president really still believes ...
World
Afghanistan
by Peter Rothberg & Andrea D'Cruz
As we approach the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference ,
December 7 to 18--the world's last chance to secure an emissions
reductions agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol before it
expires-- activists racing against a ticking ...
White House
by Marie Staunton To 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC) is an utter irrelevance. For the past year Mumo and her family
have been struggling to stay alive in the drought-ridden Masinga
district of eastern Kenya with little food or water ...
World
by Paul Krugman Earlier this week, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset
Relief Program, a k a, the bank bailout fund, released his report on
the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The
gist of the report is that government officials made no serious attempt
to ...
White House
Bailout Plan
by Mark Weisbrot A
small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians
enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and
take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to
the coup, shut down and intimidate independent media, shoot and ...
World
Honduras
by Katie Robbins & Andy Coates Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer
for a vote on an anti-abortion amendment, we felt wizened to the
possibility of unknown threats in the legislative churn on health
reform. As insurance and pharmaceutical companies, Catholic ...
Congress
Health care
by Bill McKibben
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was one of the high points not
only of the environmental movement but also of the documentary tradition
in America. He figured out how to use a new medium, PowerPoint, to take
the unavoidably wonkish story of global warming and make it ...
World
by Kate Sheppard The coal industry's major lobby group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity , shelled out a stunning $47 million last year on lobbying, advertising and "grassroots outreach"
efforts to fight climate legislation and tout the benefits of ...
World
by Robyn O'Brien The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families
guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates
of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren ,
Harvard University law professor who is head of ...
White House
Barack Obama
CBS
Katie Couric
CNN
by Glenn Greenwald
"What I'm absolutely clear about is that I have
complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and
the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in
terrorism" -- Barack Obama, yesterday . read more
World
9/11
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hobbled by opposition from the carbon incumbents and their
short-sighted allies on Capitol Hill the Obama administration
acknowledged this week that it would not return from Copenhagen with
any groundbreaking commitment to control green house gases. Meanwhile,
Congress ...
