http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/20/world/anti-islam-protests/ AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS SAID HE WAS ON TERRORIST "HIT LIST." CNN reports that Stevens had expressed concerns about the safety of the Benghazi...
Calls for Glass-Steagall re-enactment are very useful; so, occasionally, is a denunciation of it from the right person. Jamie Dimon, the investment banker and JPMorgan Chase head at the center of the...
VIDEO FOOTAGE HAS BEEN CIRCULATED INTERNATIONALLY OVER THE PAST 48 HOURS, SHOWING A BRUTAL MASS EXECUTION OF SYRIAN ARMY soldiers by opposition fighters. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc3_1340381540The...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) personally intervened on Friday into a forum by Peter Peterson's ``Comeback America Initiative,'' to slam its efforts to shove austerity down the throats of Social Security and...
The Chicago Teachers Union is threatening a strike for the first time in 25 years, against the so-called education reform agenda of Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose plan is remarkably similar to...
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/speeches/2012/speech596.pdfhttp://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/sympos/2012/Haldane-Madouros-final.pdfA top director of the Bank of England called for a...
Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of an international leadership summit, because he doesn't want to share a platform with the "morally indefensible" Tony Blair. ...
In New Orleans, in advance of Hurricane Isaac, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deployed its new Inner Harbor Navigation Canal-Lake Borgne Surge Barrier for the first time today. The largest civil works...
Camden, New Jersey Disbands Its Police Department http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/post_653.html The city with one of the worst crime rates in the nation is being forced to disband its 460-member...
The New York Times on Aug. 26 ran an editorial, "No Crime No Punishment," that condemns the Justice Department for refusing to criminally prosecute Goldman Sachs, and the resulting policy stance that the Obama...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/liberals-need-to-start-holding-obama-responsible-for-his-policies/261399/Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic this past January attacked his fellow liberals'...
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=320446&sn=Detail&pid=71654 South African Welcome Being Prepared for Blair; Subpoena, Arrest Demanded Before he is scheduled to...
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/In his column yesterday, progressive blogger Stephen Lendman is blunt: ``AIPAC [the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee] is an unregistered foreign agent.... Virtually no...