Leslie F. Roberts writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment An astonishing version of the Human Security Report was released this past week. It […]

Oregon's rich getting richer and all others falling behind, wage study shows | Oregon Business News – OregonLive.com ‘ The free-market fervor that has gripped […]

Afghanistan postpones parliamentary elections – latimes.com The LAT lays out the basic facts around the postponement of parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. The Afghan press stresses […]

An audio message allegedly from Usamah Bin Laden was released Sunday, claiming that the attempted Christmas day airline attack over Detroit was his work. I’m […]

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’s trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and I think it is fair […]

Seumas Milne: “Haiti’s poverty is treated as some ­baffling quirk of history…when in reality it is the direct ­consequence of a uniquely brutal ­relationship with […]

Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules | World news | guardian.co.uk Of course it was illegal. There are only two conditions under which war […]

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Friday in a bid to settle conflicts over the March 7 parliamentary elections. The exclusion of hundreds […]

Of course, I– like many social critics– am dismayed at the Supreme Court ruling striking down elements of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act, and […]