As the latest chapter in the curious saga of Congressman Aaron “Fly Me” Schock recently came to an end, there was an unintentionally, darkly comic…
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Ralph Nader’s new book, Return to Sender: Unanswered Letters to the President, 2001–15, is a twofer: a spiritual exercise in citizen participation and a counterfactual history…
Thanks to policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund and embraced by the domestic government, the Caribbean nation of Jamaica—saddled with poverty and international debt—has…
In February, the Director of National Intelligence issued a report summarizing the changes that President Obama has implemented since pledging major surveillance reforms in January 2014. The report chronicles…
Amid warnings that the Saudi-led attack on Yemen is taking a devastating toll on civilians, including more than 75 children killed since fighting began, the…
The foreign policy quandary facing President Barack Obama is that America’s traditional allies in the Middle East – Israel and Saudi Arabia – along with…
"The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners." —George Carlin, The…
This is a big deal. On Monday, we published Larry Summers' latest op-ed in The Washington Post, which opened with the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president…
America, without question, is drowning in a sea of debt, barely holding its head above water. There is the massive national debt of the U.S.…
The public debate over government surveillance that was, if not inaugurated, at least intensified by the publication of documents provided by Edward Snowden has been,…
by, Michael Payne, Nation of Change America, without question, is drowning in a sea of debt, barely holding its head above water. There is the…
by MARIA PAEZ VICTOR, Counter Punch Obama is not in Kansas anymore, but he does not seem to know it. Latin America no longer slavishly…