General Wesley Clark calls for mass movement to fight oil-mi...

by James Huang 9-27-2012 8:00am

Clark said that shortly after 9/11, on a visit to the Pentagon, he was told of a memo laying out plans to use the 2001 attacks as a justification to invade seven countries in five years.

Iranian Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20-Percent E...

by Gareth Porter 9-27-2012 7:00am

Iran has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in return for easing sanctions against Iran, according to Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

John Perkins to receive Lennon Ono Grant for Peace 2012

by John Perkins 9-26-2012 3:00pm

Taliban Outflank U.S. War Strategy with Insider Attacks

by Gareth Porter 9-21-2012 11:45am

Sharply increased attacks on U.S. and other NATO personnel by Afghan security forces, reflecting both infiltration of and Taliban influence on those forces, appear to have outflanked the U.S.-NATO command’s strategy for maintaining control of the insurgency.

Canada’s Totalitarian Shift

by Mark Taliano 9-17-2012 4:00pm

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Canada slides towards totalitarianism while most Canadians look the other way...

The Right Side of History

by Donna Red Wing 9-13-2012 3:00pm

For the first time in our country’s history, we saw a major political party embrace marriage equality and make a bold and public commitment to protect equality for LGBT Americans.

Participatory Budgeting Inspires Citizens to Put in Time

by Hollie Russon Gilman 9-12-2012 6:00am

It was raining on an end of summer night.  I contemplated taking the longest subway ride I had ever taken to attend an “information session for Participatory Budgeting in New York.”

Real Reason US Invaded Afghanistan?

by Russ Baker 9-12-2012 6:00am

When the United States decided to invade Afghanistan to grab Osama bin Laden—and failed, but stayed on like an unwanted guest—could it have known that the Afghans were sitting on some of the world’s greatest reserves of mineral wealth?

A Long Life's Reflections and the Best Change of All

by Ken Goldstein 9-10-2012 11:00am

Surely you can do the math in your head, but to be 75 now you had to be born after the full resolution of World War I, but before the full onset of World War II.

Vilified BP Exec 'Oil Spill' Hayward is Back

Written anonymously 9-7-2012 4:00pm

BP appears to be trying to get away with a comparatively small fine (given the recklessness and consequences), based in part on a formula tying penalties to the amount of spilled oil collected, a number reduced by use of a highly toxic dispersant that broke the oil up into largely invisible micro-droplets.