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By Robert Scheer — American families have lost 20 years of growth while at least 18 bankers and tycoons sat on Fed boards that coincidentally bailed out their institutions.
Posted on Jun 14, 2012
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By Joe Conason — When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer—a crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived.
Posted on Jun 14, 2012
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A document from President Obama’s free trade negotiations that was leaked Wednesday morning revealed an administration proposal to allow multinational corporations doing business in the United States to police themselves via an international tribunal staffed by lawyers on the companies’ payroll. The scheme obliterates a 2008 promise by Obama to do just the opposite.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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At a hearing Wednesday held by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke against confirming Kristine Svinicki for another five-year term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, citing her history of voting in the interest of a power company and against the Vermont public.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For those who believe money already has too much power in American politics, 2012 will be a miserable year.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — As the election season heats up, an increasing number of states are working to limit the number of people who are allowed to vote.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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The embalmed corpse of the father of Russian communism has been on display for curious tourists in a marble tomb in Moscow’s Red Square since shortly after his death in 1924. But Lenin may be given his final resting place in the coming months during Vladimir Putin’s third term as president.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By Howie Stier — Students now piece together a degree at different schools the way the underemployed desperately piece together a paycheck with a string of shifts at different employers.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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According to his IMDb filmography, this is the 30th year in a row that the filmmaker has directed at least one feature film, starting with 1982’s “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy.” He was only slightly less prolific in the 16 years prior.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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After a week of considering the evidence, a working group of the World Health Organization determined that diesel exhaust is carcinogenic in human lungs. Underground miners, bus drivers and railroad workers are especially vulnerable, but the risks from traffic exhaust extend to the general population.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political events, including the Arizona special election winner, JPMogran Chase CEO Jamie Dimon heckled and Sheldon Adelson’s latest multimillion-dollar donation.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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An already dire situation in Syria is getting worse as Russia continues to arm the Syrian military and Saudi Arabia and Qatar send anti-tank missiles to the Syrian opposition with the Obama administration’s support.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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State senators in North Carolina passed a measure Tuesday in open defiance of the laws of nature, making it illegal to take into account events such as melting polar ice caps when forecasting the rate of ocean level rise along the state’s 300 miles of vulnerable, tourist-saturated coast.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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Global approval of Barack Obama’s foreign policies has taken a pounding in his first term as president, especially regarding the U.S. military’s use of drones, a Pew Research survey of 21 countries shows.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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Abdolfattah Soltani, a well-known Iranian lawyer who co-founded an organization that defends the rights of women, minorities and political prisoners, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his work and for what Iran’s hard-line judiciary called spreading anti-government propaganda and endangering national security.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By William Pfaff — President Barack Obama’s acts consciously undermine the civilized order of modern society. The United States has quite deliberately made itself an outlaw state.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change shows China’s carbon emissions could be 20 percent higher than previous estimates, a disparity that would cast doubts on current predictions of the pace of climate change.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Like the United States, Russia struggles with crumbling infrastructure, but Moscow has devised a novel solution: lower standards.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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U.N. investigators say Syrian troops are armoring their vehicles with children in order to deter enemy fire. A report on children and armed conflict also says Syrian authorities are torturing children and the opposition may be recruiting minors.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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A new report issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has advised governments to increase the retirement age in their countries. In the face of longer life expectancies, a higher retirement age is the only way to keep pension programs solvent, it says.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Arizona’s special election, the fiscal damage done by George W. Bush’s presidency and the latest on the controversial Florida voter purge.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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This spring more than 43,000 people, including a record 17,000 children, slept in New York City homeless shelters each night. The average length of a family’s stay in a shelter has increased to nearly one year, with the number of people sleeping in shelters currently at an all time high.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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Robert Caro has so far spent 36 years writing the saga of Lyndon Johnson—more time than the ambitious Texan spent climbing from Congress to the White House. Caro just released his fourth installment, “The Passage of Power,” which chronicles Johnson’s exit from a strong position in the Senate into the relative powerlessness of the vice presidency.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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