In Egypt, Human Rights is Last on the Military Agenda

Four months since popular protests ushered in the military in order to oust Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, civil liberties and human rights seem to be on last thing on the military backed government's agenda.

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Global Power Project: Connecting Josef Ackermann, the Institute of International Finance and the Euro Debt Crisis

When the European debt crisis hit headlines in 2010, the Institute of International Finance was again on the scene and playing a major part, like it did during the 1980s debt crisis. At the center this time was the CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann.

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An Interview with Occupy Activist and Author Nathan Schneider

Contradictions of Occupy, says Schneider? "Autonomy and accountability, sanity and madness, order and mischief, creativity and frustration, occupation and colonization, relief and recovery, grievance and self-sufficiency, ecstasy and failure."

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Radical Transparency: A Call to Amend the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Democracy dies behind closed doors. That's why we need an amendment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stripping our governments of the right to lie to citizens.

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Will Hawaii’s Big Island Ban GMO Farming?

The Big Island of Hawaii County Council will consider a bill that would prohibit open-air growing of genetically modified organisms and end biotech experiments on the island.

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Low Fast Food Wages Cost Taxpayers $7 Billion Per Year

Yet another corporation shifts the costs of business to taxpayers.

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Exposed: Major U.K. Financier and Conservative Donor Guilty of LIBOR Rigging

Financial authorities in Britain have uncovered that a major financial supporter of the U.K. government, ICAP's CEO Michael Spencer, is closely tied to the LIBOR rate rigging scandal affecting some $360 trillion worldwide.

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Bay Area Transit Fight Continues As Residents, Workers Vie for Message Control

With the government shutdown in its third week and a potential, cataclysmic debt ceiling wall looming Thursday, union negotiators, government officials and BART management are working nonstop to hammer out a deal that eases growing tensions.

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Hedges: The Folly of Empire

The last days of empire are carnivals of folly. The politicians and court propagandists, hired to be the public faces on the sinking ship, mask the real work of the crew, which is systematically robbing the passengers as the vessel goes down.

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Welcome to Commonomics: Learning to Build Local, Self-Reliant Economies

When it comes to sustainability and localism, people excluded from policymaking often have the most innovative ideas for building strength.

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