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 Pakistan's New PM Sharif Urges Talks with Taliban With Pakistan in crisis, its new leader has promised much, if he does not deliver soon he will be looking into the political abyss |
 Wikileaks Cables Reveal State Dept. Promoting GMOs Abroad Darcey O'Callaghan: US embassies are aggressively and systematically promoting biotechnology and GMO food abroad |
 Obama's Attack on Whistleblowers Criminalizes News Gathering Kathleen McClellan: Some former Bush administration officials were quoted as saying, we'd never be able to get away with what the Obama administration has done |
 Ecuador's President Attacks US Over Press Freedom Critique Critics say Correa is creating a pro-government media system; Correa says there is a fundamental contradiction with corporate for-profit media involved in distributing public information | |||||||||
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Danny Schechter
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Does making films help make change? By Danny Schechter
As showbiz has merged with the news business, TV networks have largely abandoned long-form programming.
There has been a major shift in media culture as most TV networks have abandoned long-form information programming. In these times, with Twitter ...Saturday, 25 May 2013 readmore... |
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed The common problem we face is the power of concentrated wealth and monopolistic corporate interests. This has created a crony capitalist economy that uses government to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the people, ...Saturday, 25 May 2013 readmore... |
John Weeks
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Economics for the 99%: Mainstream economics on budget cuts: dumb and dumber There is nothing so reactionary that most mainstream economists will not fervently advocate it. [cartoon from google images]
If you read The New York Times - not that I recommend it - you might have encountered an article by Eduardo Po...Thursday, 23 May 2013 readmore... |
William Fisher
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FORE! By William Fisher
It must have been the late 1950s and I couldn’t have been more than 18 – I hadn’t yet finished undergrad school. But I had a job on what was widely thought of as one ...Friday, 17 May 2013 readmore... |
David Swanson
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Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet By David Swansonhttp://warisacrime.org/content/why-we-allow-destruction-our-planet It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is. And if we had direct ... Tuesday, 14 May 2013 readmore... |
Ray McGovern
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The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo By Ray McGovern. This article was first published on Consortium News.
For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America’s conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands ...Tuesday, 14 May 2013 readmore... |
Annie Machon
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CIA and MI6 "ghost money" in Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking "ghost money" from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of "national security", but are estimated to have been tens of millions of ...Tuesday, 14 May 2013 readmore... |
William Black
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Brown-Vitter Will Not and Cannot Work but it is Criminogenic William K. Black
Introduction
Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) have introduced a bill entitled “Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act of 2013.” It is a miracle of modern staffing that Vitter, who loves polluters as much as his ...Saturday, 11 May 2013 readmore... |
Norman Solomon
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Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole By Norman Solomon
The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled. Yet the Obama rhetoric about standing up for working people against “special ...Thursday, 9 May 2013 readmore... |
Robert Pollin and Michael Ash
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Debt and Growth: A Response to Reinhart and Rogoff
By ROBERT POLLIN and MICHAEL ASH
AMHERST, Mass.
THE debate over government debt and its relationship to economic growth is at the forefront of policy debates across the industrialized world. The role of the economics profession in shaping the ...Tuesday, 30 April 2013 readmore... |
Lynn Stuart Parramore
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When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America By Lynn Stuart Paramore. This article was first published on AlterNet.
Wage theft is fast becoming a top trend of the 21st-century labor market.
Imagine you’ve just landed a job with a big-time retailer. Your task is to load and ...Monday, 29 April 2013 readmore... |
Soheil Asefi
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In Defense of PEN: Salute Mr. Hedges by Soheil Asefi“This appointment makes a mockery of PEN as a human rights organization and belittles the values PEN purports to defend… I will wait until the organization returns to its original mandate to ... Thursday, 25 April 2013 readmore... |
Tony Wood
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The Case for Chechnya By Tony Wood. This article was first published on The New Left Review.
What happened was what always happens when a state possessing great military strength enters into relations with primitive, small peoples living their independent lives. Either ...Sunday, 21 April 2013 readmore... |
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