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(02/23/12 1:58am)
Earlier this month, the Obama administration brokered a multi-billion-dollar settlement between 49 state attorneys general and five major US banks over widespread fraud in the rush to foreclose on millions of American homeowners after the housing bubble burst.
(02/02/12 12:02am)
One year after the outbreak of the Egyptian Revolution, millions of workers and students took to the streets throughout Egypt to protest the dictatorship of the U.S.-backed military junta, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and demand the ouster of its head, General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
(01/12/12 12:30am)
The Obama administration has inaugurated 2012 with renewed belligerence toward Iran, which threatens to destabilize the region and spark a wider conflagration between the world’s major powers.
(12/15/11 2:06am)
Earlier this month the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 93 to 7 in favor of approving the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes the military to unilaterally detain indefinitely without trial any individual anywhere in the world – including U.S. citizens within the U.S.
(12/08/11 1:37am)
Three years after the Wall Street collapse initiated deep recession, the world once again stands on the precipice of an economic abyss, demonstrating that the current crisis represents not merely a conjunctural downturn in the markets, but a systemic breakdown of the capitalist system.
(11/17/11 3:33am)
The High Court in London has dismissed the appeal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, paving the way for his extradition to Sweden and eventually the United States.
(11/10/11 2:34am)
Three weeks ago, President Obama abruptly announced all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year after the breakdown of negotiations over extending the Status of Forces Agreement.
(10/20/11 1:26am)
This year is the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War – one of the most significant world-historic events of the nineteenth century. At the cost of some 600,000 lives, President Abraham Lincoln closed the final chapter of the American Revolution, extending freedom to nearly 4 million slaves in the process.
(10/12/11 11:50pm)
The Occupy Wall Street protests have entered their fourth week, testifying to the deep-rooted hatred in the American working class for the country’s financial aristocracy. Conditions of long-term unemployment, rising social inequality, poverty and indebtedness have provided fertile ground for the demonstrations’ spread to scores of cities and university campuses across the United States.
(10/05/11 10:49pm)
On September 23, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas requested recognition from the United Nations General Assembly for a Palestinian state. Regardless of the outcome, this will accomplish nothing for the Palestinian people, although for entirely different reasons than those espoused by the hypocrites in Washington who have threatened to veto the measure.
(09/22/11 2:30am)
More Americans are now living in more poverty than at any time on record, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Census. There were 46.2 million people, or about one in six residents, living in poverty in 2010 as the nation’s poverty rate hit 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent a year before and 12.5 percent in 2007.
(06/28/11 1:29am)
Fifty-five years ago this Wednesday, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, clearing the way for the “greatest public works project in history” — the U.S. interstate system.
(05/23/11 2:12pm)
The worst flooding in three-quarters of a century is threatening the lives and property of hundreds of thousands of Americans along the Mississippi River. Dozens of small towns and millions of acres of farmland have already flooded as the crest of the Mississippi moves south toward the river’s confluence with the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans.
(05/09/11 6:35pm)
One week ago, President Obama announced that U.S. Special Forces had raided the fortified compound of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killing the 9/11 mastermind along with four other people, including one woman. Bin Laden had been living within walking distance of a major Pakistani military headquarters and only a short drive from the country’s capitol of Islamabad.
(04/10/11 6:05pm)
President Obama announced officially last week he will run for re-election in 2012. Having become the first black president, Obama now sets his sights on a new distinction: the first candidate to raise more than a billion dollars. Last week’s filing was intended to give him a jump start on fundraising to meet this goal.
(04/03/11 10:11pm)
This Tuesday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in southern West Virginia. The explosion, which ripped through a Massey-owned coal mine in one of the poorest regions of the country, took the lives of 29 miners, making it the worst coal mine disaster in the U.S. in four decades.
(03/20/11 8:27pm)
Eight years ago on March 19, 2003, the United States government flouted international law and defied the millions who protested in the U.S. and around the world by unilaterally invading Iraq. The rape of Iraq undoubtedly will be recorded as one of greatest crimes of the 21st century.
(03/06/11 9:49pm)
As popular protests in Libya against the 41-year-regime of dictator Muammar Gaddafi transform into an open insurrection for his forcible overthrow, the world’s imperialist powers have converged on the country like a pack of wolves readying for an attack.
(02/20/11 9:17pm)
Just three weeks ago, this author greeted the eruption of the working class in Northern Africa and the Middle East with the opinion similar demonstrations could be held in “almost any corner of the globe given the universality of the social grievances involved.”
(02/13/11 10:01pm)
Workers and young people throughout the world welcome the ouster of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak with jubilation. They salute the Egyptian people for their courageous struggle in the face of intimidation, torture and repression. Theirs is the honor of having fired the opening shot in a new era of social upheaval.