Iran, 30 years after occupying the US Embassy

Nader Hashemi on the latest protests in Iran

Israel: Remote control occupation?

Baum: New technologies are allowing Israel to maintain control over its occupation remotely

Don't repeat Vietnam in Afghanistan Pt.3

Daniel Ellsberg: The counter-insurgency plan in Afganistan is similar to Viet Nam Pt3

Bad news gets good readership

The problem is that some times news stories a hyped to gain readership, I wonder why readers love doom and gloom, especially within a recession that’s recovering.   Human being tend to think the worst there...

Can the Goldman ponzi scheme happen again?

Greg Gordon: There is nothing that can prohibit or stop the Wall St. firms from making secret bets

Gay rights leaders blame Ads, Obama for loss in Maine

While Conservatives celebrated Maine voters' repeal of a law that would allow gay couples to marry, gay rights leaders blame television ads and President Obama for the Gay marriage loss in the state of Maine. "...

Harvey's Top 10: "Let's Look At The Big Picture"

Ken Harvey, an accomplished author who won the Violet Quill Award for Best Gay Fiction of the Year, for a book of short stories, "if you were with me everything would be all right" finds himself, as he has in...

Goldman's walk on subprime wild side

Goldman climbed into bed with New Century Financial Corp's unreviewed and off shore deals

Goldman left investors holding its subprime bag

Inside investment circular were the details of a secret $2 billion deal channeled through a tax haven.

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

Goldman didn’t tell buyers of $40 billion in securities it was secretly betting the other way

Persistence paid off! CNN working on "Gay in America" special

In August 2009, this author reported on LGBT activitists urge CNN to consider "Gay in America" series. A successful series presented by CNN titled "Black in America", and a series titled "Latino In America", had...

Black men in America: The Obama effect

CNN, HLN and Essence Magazine are taking an unprecedented look at the effect President Obama has had on Black men in America. "One year after the historic election of President Barack Obama, CNN, HLN and Essence...

Organizing for the poor Pt.3

Williams: Over the last several years the left has been suffering from demoralization and demobilization

Clock ticking in Honduras

Giordano: A month before elections, coup regime that once sought to kill time is now running out of it

Remember when Bush was talking Private Option to Social Security?

Here's what the media didn't tell you: the Galveston Plan: Back in 1980 the employees of Galveston County voted to opt out of Social Security for a private plan. Two other counties joined in just before Congress...

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