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What Many US Corporate Media Hide About Hong Kong Crisis
Photo: Voice of America — Public Domain [International] The protests in Hong Kong have been big in the news recently, but many ...
North Korea: $600 Billion Reasons Why Peace Is Not Good For Military Industrial Complex
President Eisenhower could see in 1961 what exists today –the Pentagon and the arms industry run the show. Peace is not good for their ...
Africa Ready For Change? Lessons from the French Revolution
[Letter From New York] Backwards ever! Gen. Museveni delivers on his promise made 32 years ago to lead Uganda to middle-income status. Photo: Facebook ...
The Execution of Nimr Al-Nimr: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Nimr Al-Nimr The brutal Saudi execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr has led to protests around the globe, as well as the burning ...
President Obama: A Mighty Duck
So I was having a conversation the other day with a relative who was visiting this area for the holidays. To say that this ...
The Republican Debate: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Would be presidents of the United States It was showtime in the Republican debate in Las Vegas. Hysteria was the coin of the table. ...
I Support U.S.-Iran Deal Because Diplomacy Must Supercede War
Rep. Charles Rangel Fourteen years ago a terrible thing happened to our country, to our city, when terrorists attacked us on September 11. Then ...
Obama: The Real Captain America
The literary Captain America (created in 1941 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Timely/Marvel Comics) is Steve Rogers – the frail World War ...
Elephantine (or it ain’t easy being Republican)
Roses are red, the sky is blue… what time is it? It’s elephant time. We need to talk about the elephants in the room. ...
Shedding Some Dysfunction, Congress Slowly Becoming More Effective
Lee Hamilton [Commentary] There have been encouraging signs on Capitol Hill of late that Congress’s long slide into irrelevance may be slowing. Agreements on ...
