Barbara Garson writes at Tomdispatch.com If you had to date the Great Recession, you might say it started in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers vaporized […]

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases Syrian news items on the economy of the war-torn country: Syrian Economic Roundup 01 – 07 Apr […]

The intrepid Max Fisher of WaPo reports that Jon Stewart’s Daily Show satire of North Korea’s menacing statements went viral in China, garnering 2.3 million […]

A car bomb killed at least 15 persons in downtown Damascus on Monday and wounded over 60. It is not clear if the bombing is […]

Iceland gets 26% of its electricity from geothermal power, and is a pioneer in the industry, such that Kenyan and other scientists go there for […]

Democracy Now! interviews the Iceland member of parliament, access to whose twitter account was summarily demanded by the US government because of her involvement in […]

The late Margaret Thatcher had an enormous impact on Britain and the world, but her legacy has been a more unequal, less prosperous Britain and […]

Coralie Pison Hindawi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion (a war unleashed […]

Coal plants are the world’s most abundant and most dangerous source of carbon dioxide emissions and the most important single driver of catastrophic climate change. […]