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This shameful abuse of Bradley Manning

The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business.

Obama versus the Polar Bears

President Obama’s decision comes despite the fact that US government and independent models predict an 80% chance Polar Bears will become mostly extinct by 2050, with total extinction this century without cuts in emissions.

The Global Economy in 2011: Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms

As the U.S. and Europe appear to be headed for a deeper economic crisis, some analysts discern a “decoupling” of East Asia and other developing areas from the western economies.

Secrecy, Truth, & the Struggle for Peace & Justice: Reflections on the WikiLeaks Revelations

The WikiLeaks saga demonstrates that secrecy plus power results in corruption and crime, and that an informed citizenry is essential to prevent our's from becoming a society where civil liberties are a pipe dream and torture is the norm.

The Torturer in the Mirror

When is torture ever an effective tool of government? Despite Obama promises to end torture (and close Guantanamo), this ineffective, inhumane and unacceptable practice still continues with complicity from the highest levels of the US government.

Climate Currency

We need public money to prime the pump for private investment in clean energy around the world. This will not only help build climate resilience, but will also create jobs in the US.

What mosque hysteria has to do with the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

The controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It's about war.

Unfinished Business of Executive Pay Reform

Excessive executive pay, as the Wall Street meltdown has demonstrated ever so vividly, endangers our public well-being as surely as any other pollutants.

Gross Media Negligence

When the mainstream media fails to question the dictates of the powerful or omits the contradictory facts that might lead to a questioning audience, history itself gets rewritten, with dangerous implications for the future.

Why the U.S. won't cut ties with Israel, no matter how extreme its government gets

Israel's defence minister spends much more time in Washington than the nation's pro-"ethnic cleansing" foreign minister; no wonder when the US is committing hundreds of billions of US taxes to Israel's militarization.