It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We'd Ground Our Fleet
But after a dozen or more deaths at a Yemeni wedding, don't expect anything to change.
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Anonymous Issues Warning of Shutdown to Federal Reserve Page on #D23
"We are not fooled. We know that there is nothing federal and that there are no reserves. The masses are waking, and we are rising. We have learned of all the atrocities that lie within central banking."
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U.S. Officials Will No Longer Provide Information on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
A spokesman for the U.S. military announced that the authorities will no longer provide public information on how many prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are participating in hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention.
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Let's Get This Straight: AIG Execs Got Bailout Bonuses But Pensioners Get Cuts
In contrast to top AIG executives who helped bankrupt their company and sink the economy, no one has accused city workers in Chicago or Detroit of doing anything wrong. They did their jobs — so why are they the ones facing pension cuts?
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Report: Massive Data-Sharing Among U.S. Law Agencies Is Wasteful, "Organized Chaos"
A report released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school found inconsistent rules, inadequate oversight, wastefulness and insufficient regard for civil liberties nationwide among the FBI, DHS and local police departments.
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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Architects of Austerity
From Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi to Jaime Caruana and Kenneth Rogoff, proponents of austerity politics run in some of the world's elite circles where they have pushed illogical and unsuccessful economics to its inevitable conclusion.
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World's Leading Authors Condemn State Spying and Demand "Digital Bill of Rights"
Accusing the U.S., Britain and other states of systematically abusing their powers by conducting mass surveillance, Don DeLillo, Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and J.M. Coetzee are among the renowned writers petitioning the U.N. for new civil rights protections.
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Is Afghan President Rejecting U.S. Security Pact Due to Mysterious Civilian Killings in Wardak Province?
Despite local protests, outrage from human rights organizations and the urging of the Afghan government, the U.S. has chosen not to cooperate with national investigations into civilian deaths in Wardak province that may amount to war crimes.
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How Defending Private Intelligence Firm Collaborators Screws Grassroots Activists
Collaborating with such an insidious firm is bad enough, but defending that collaborator in spite of all the evidence that’s been made public is irresponsible and potentially hazardous to activists in the long run.
