The groundbreaking memoir of a current Guantánamo inmate that lays bare the harrowing details of the US rendition and torture programme from the perspective of one of its victims is to be published next week after a six-year battle for… Read More ›
Politics
Elizabeth Warren: I’m not running for president
Read the transcript of a “conversation between the Massachusetts senator and Fortune Contributor and former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, in which a more business-friendly side of Warren emerges.” Fortune: Congress just effectively repealed a Dodd-Frank prohibition on big banks using FDIC-insured… Read More ›
Why did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attacks?
As media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks last week, more than 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another? France spent the weekend coming to terms with… Read More ›
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress
The 114th Congress may be the most diverse ever, but it’s still 80 percent white male, and 92 percent Christian. Why our elected officials (still) look nothing like us. Cue the confetti: The new Congress sworn in on Tuesday is… Read More ›
US Senator Rand Paul- Repatriation of Corporate Offshore Funds or More Corporate Welfare
Senator Rand Paul is seemingly obsessed with giving corporations another ‘tax holiday’ even though the last one proved a dud. Paul has introduced S. 911, which would reduce the repatriation rate to 5 percent. Paul argues lowering that tax on… Read More ›
The Bipartisan War Consensus
By Scott Beauchamp Hawks such as Sen. John McCain and commentators such as former New York Times columnist Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal editor Bret Stephens fret about America’s growing isolationism and the potential for a de-Americanized world, in… Read More ›
Florida’s health care system for needy and disabled children violates federal laws, judge rules
A federal judge Wednesday declared Florida’s health care system for needy and disabled children to be in violation of several federal laws, handing a stunning victory to doctors and children’s advocates who have fought for almost a decade to force… Read More ›
Top 20 Most Popular Democracy Now! Interviews of 2014
As 2014 comes to an end, we look back at the 20 interviews that were watched and shared most widely on our website.
If UN Recognizes Palestine, Israel Must Annex in Judea-Samaria
Likud Central Committee chairman Danny Danon, who is challenging Binyamin Netanyahu for leadership of the party, on Saturday night called on Israel to respond to an expected UN recognition of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine” by… Read More ›
Predictions for Syria in 2015 by Joshua Landis
Here is a year end wrap up and predictions for 2015 for Syria and no solution in sight. It is very sobering article from a US Syrian expert. Oil is more important than bombs in that area, and the rich… Read More ›
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