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Sheldon Filger: Obama Versus JFK on Corporate Greed: A Telling Comparison

In the past six months, President Obama has revealed his towering intellect, basic decency and sophisticated world view. However, we have yet to observe the toughness and passion required to take on the forces that drove the U.S. and global economy into a ditch.

Raymond J. Learsy: Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Nuclear Defense Umbrella For The Oil Price Gougers. Who Pays?

In October of 2008 as the world’s economies were on the verge of collapse, OPEC spokesmen, exhibiting their innate instinct of timing and concern…

Clinton: “Irreversible Denuclearization” Only Option For North Korea

PHUKET, Thailand – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says “irreversible denuclearization” is the only viable option for North Korea.

Attending an Asian security conference, Clinton said China, Japan, Russia and South Korea were a…

Murray Fromson: And That’s the Way It Was…

When I first met Cronkite was a hawk, a supporter of the conflict in Vietnam like so many Americans of his generation. What led to his profound change of heart about the war?

Aram Roston: CIA Supervisor Claimed He Used Fire Ants On Detainee

A recently released legal memo describing interrogation techniques showed that Bush Administration lawyers had approved the use of “insects” in interrogations. “You would like to…

Murray Fromson: A Postscript on McNamara’s Death

It has taken me nearly a week to reflect on how figures like Robert McNamara contributed to the erosion of the American people’s trust in…

Sanjay Khanna: From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man’s Inhumanity to Man

The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.