Yearly Archives: 2016

Juan Cole discusses the history of Assad Family and their obsession with wealth and power.

Overall, Clinton's leadership has involved strong ties to corporations deeply vested in climate inaction, and the apparent execution of their climate agenda.

Monsanto maintains that their product is safe, and that the recent arguments over glyphosate or purely “political.”

Clinton says she supports a Department of Justice investigation of ExxonMobil and yet she takes money from an Exxon lobbyist.

Cherelle and Marissa are just two of the 12.7 million people in the U.S. who are physically abused, raped or stalked by their partners annually.

Reforms wait as Democrat's allies target GOP with super PACs, ‘dark money’

There is something big happening in the American body politic and in this presidential campaign. Bernie Sanders has touched a nerve and his campaign has gone from a quixotic experiment to a contest to a movement, and there may be no stopping it at this point, though Clinton may try.

In 2015, the U.S. government spent $598 billion on the military, more than half of its total discretionary budget, and nearly 10 times what it spent on education.

Asylum seekers are men, women and children fleeing persecution, and have the right to be treated with dignity and compassion, not intolerance, as is so often the case.

In a just world, those in government, especially in Canada and the US, who tacitly supported the forces behind the Honduran coup would pay at least a political price for helping to set the country back years, if not decades.