Cowardly Progressives (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

June 7, 2010 -- After listening to a number of speeches at a national conference of progressives I come to this conclusion: Progressives are more than eager to take credit for electing President Obam ...

Vulnerable Nations at Copenhagen Summit Reject 2C Target | John Vidal

Alliance of Small Island States say any deal that allows temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C is 'not negotiable' Dec. 10, 2009 (Guardian) -- More than half the world's countries say they are deter ...

The Devil and Mr. Obama | Joe Bageant

Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse (Note: Patrick Ward, associate editor of the UK's Socialist Review asked Joe to write a piece for the party publication. This i ...

The editorial seen around the world | Mark Leon Goldberg

A version of the same editorial calling for action in Copenhagen ran in 56 newspapers in 45 countries today. Many on the front page. This unprecedented effort was spearheaded by the Guardian. Good fo ...

Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke 'Complicit' in Financial Crisis and Should Go | Amy Goodman

Dec. 4, 2009 (Democracy Now) -- In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernan ...

BOOKS: A Choice of Enemies - America Confronts the Middle East, By Lawrence Freedman (Jim Miles)

A Choice of Enemies -- America Confronts the Middle East. Lawrence Freedman. Anchor Canada (Random House). 2009. Nov. 17, 2009 -- The subtitle to this text carries an interesting choice of active ver ...

BOOKS: Speak English | Mike Palecek

Now Available from CWG Press Reviewers are calling this new novel from Mike Palecek a MUST READ. Here's a link to Joan Wile's review on Rag Blog: Sci-fi, conspiracy theories and politics merge: Speak ...

Insurgents Taking Charge in Kunduz | Gul Rahim Niazmand

Once one of the most stable provinces, parts of Kunduz are falling under Taleban control Oct. 12, 2009 (Institute For War And Peace Reporting) -- The vehicle is marked Kunduz provincial police headqu ...

Marx and Lenin Revisited (Paul Craig Roberts)

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” --Karl Marx October 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- If Karl Mar ...

We Poke Along | David Glenn Cox

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 1, 2009 -- In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal Emergen ...

What is the CIA Still Hiding about Interrogations? (Nat Hentoff)

Sept. 4, 2009 (Billings Gazette) -- A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an American Civil Liberties Un ...