Splashed all over this weekend’s news was the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera aka, El Chapo, the Mexican drug kingpin ranked #67 on Forbes’s “Powerful People” list who got his billions from the being the man in at the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, responsible for an estimated 25 percent of the illegal drugs that […]
America and the World
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Israel-Palestine Peace: A Hostage to History
Recent comments from Benjamin Netanyahu suggest that he wants to bring the messy topic of subjective historical narratives to the negotiating table.
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Walking on Ukrainian Eggshells
Helping the biggest country on its frontier build a democracy will require Europe to invest some resources, not hold back its support.
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John McCain Says Ignorant, Belligerent Things; Press Swoons
McCain knows nothing about foreign affairs, yet is treated as though his thoughts on Ukraine are worth listening to.
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America In Decline
Bad news: the USA accounts for a mere 4 out of every 10 dollars the human race spends on the machinery of war.
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Chattanooga Showdown
If workers vote to join a union at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant this week, they’ll be changing America’s labor relations for the better
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Frankly Scarlett, You Should Give a Damn
A starlet can be ignorant of politics, but Netanyahu is willfully twisting the words of EU and American leaders on the settlements boycott issue.
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What’s a Responsible, Progressive Position on an Israeli Settlements Boycott?
The recent Scarlett Johansson/SodaStream controversy highlights the need to be clear about end goals.
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The Moment of Creation
Do America’s current challenges in the Middle East trace back to Harry Truman’s 1948 missteps?
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Daily Meme: Countdown to Sochi
The winter Olympics start a week from today, and the projected temperature for first day of competition is a not-particularly-wintry 45 degrees. Nobody could have predicted this would happen when you hold the games in a beach resort town, huh? Russia was awarded the games in part due to the efforts of Gafur Rakhimov to […]
