20 Years and 4 Presidents Later and Gitmo Still Not Closed
Human rights groups call on Biden to keep his campaign promise to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
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U.S. Interior Department Moves to Block Some Oil and Gas Leasing on Alaska’s North Slope
Interior Department restricts oil and gas development in Alaska’s National Petroleum Researve.
Read more...Calls for Paid Leave Grow as Workers Face ‘Vicious Cycle’: Their Jobs or Covid Safety
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls lack of access to paid sick leave in the midst of a pandemic “barbaric.”
Read more...Michael Hudson: What is Causing So Much Inflation?
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout.
Read more...A Movement to Organize Against the Systemic Corruption of Congress
Since Citizens United, systemic corruption as a subject of discussion has virtually disappeared from public awareness.
Read more...Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
How using the military alliance NATO for Euroepean-loyality-building ends has made it more and more of a threat to Russia.
Read more...Hold That Anti-Fogging Spray: Duke University Researchers Find Forever Chemicals in Commonly Used Eyeglass Products
Use of many popular anti-fogging sprays and anti-fogging cloths expose U.S. eyeglass wearers to potentially harmful forever chemicals.
Read more...“They Really Are Trying to Kill Us”
A tale of elite negligence.
Read more...Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
Read more...The Fed Sets Out to Kill the Economy to Save It
The Fed is trying to solve an economic problem that is largely outside its reach.
Read more...Lawrence Wilkerson: Is Biden Risking War by Pushing Taiwan Independence?
Larry Wilkerson discusses whether Biden is provoking a military response from China that could go nuclear.
Read more...Covid Crisis Hits New York City Schools
With students and teacher absences high, New York City schools are buckling under Omicron. A harbinger for other US cities?
Read more...Calling Trump ‘Just a Warm-Up Act,’ Professor Warns of Democratic Collapse in US
Why it is a little too pat to blame the right for the sorry state of democratic processes in the US.
Read more...Most People Want an Active Government, Working on Their Side. It Is Time Those Seeking Power Took Note.
The UK government, like its US counterpart, is not held in much respect. Does this create an opportunity?
Read more...Yes, Maggie, There Is Such a Thing as “Society”
Shared air is a social relation.
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