Panama Papers Revelation of Assad Family’s Stolen Wealth Helps Explain the Syrian Revolution
Juan Cole discusses the history of Assad Family and their obsession with wealth and power.
Hillary’s Dance: The Two-Faced Hypocritical 12-Step
Given Hillary's past deceits and reversals, it's easy to see why she doesn't inspire trust among the American people. Is Hillary dancing around reality?
Empire of Chaos
With President Trump, Is the American Experiment Over?
Goldman Sachs: Benefits of ‘blue wave’ and $2.5 trillion stimulus outweigh Wall Street concerns...
“As right-wing hacks predict economic disaster if Biden wins, worth pointing out that private-sector analysts are remarkably bullish.”
Where Trump sees foreign danger
For Trump, it’s immigrants and imports. He doesn’t care much about interference in our democracy.
Bernie Sanders leads charge to block $20 billion arms sale to Israel
Senator Bernie Sanders pledges to introduce a resolution to halt a massive U.S. arms deal with Israel, responding to widespread criticism of American complicity in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The Republican Debate of Texas
It's now quite conceivable that come January 2017, we will see Donald Trump inaugurated as president.
Megadonor’s threat wasn’t enough to stop Missouri abortion ban
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill into law that would ban abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy, defying a plea from a major megadonor.
Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral
The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.
Jack Teixeira, US Airman First Class, faces 15 years in prison for leaking Pentagon...
The leaked documents "revealed U.S. assessments of the war in Ukraine as well as sensitive secrets about American allies."