2015 has become a year of living dangerously. Wars are spreading across the globe.  Wars are escalating as new countries are bombed and the old…

“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.”…

Past Is Present: 50 Years After the Watts Rebellion, Ferguson’s Crisis Confirms Delusions of ‘Progress’ and ‘Change’ Fifty years ago today, the Watts neighborhood of…

Santayana had it wrong: Even if we remember the past, we may be condemned to repeat it. Indeed, the more we learn about the conflict…

In a forthcoming interview with Al Jazeera English set to air on July 31st, a former United States general—who helped craft some of the most controversial tactics in…

U.S. military officials have now stated that journalists will not be allowed to embed with the military for the upcoming Jade Helm 15 exercise. One…

America! Land of the free, home of the brave, and the greatest country on the face of the planet, right? A country with seemingly limitless…

With an estimated 70 percent of the American diet made up of processed foods [3], we — as a collective — are facing a serious conundrum in…

Sometimes racism isn’t about vicious bigotry and hatred towards those with different skin color than your own, let alone a willingness to walk into a…

The U.S. Army has finally admitted to conducting experiments on human subjects with chemical weapons throughout World War II—simply because they were African-American, Japanese-American, or…

Female veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of civilian women and at rates nearly equal to that of male veterans, according to…

Are we going to let capitalism destroy life on Earth? According to 99 percent of climate scientists – we'll know by the end of the…