1. These are just "lone wolf" psychos who are acting alone. You can't hold anybody else responsible for what crazy people decide to do. True and false. But mostly false. It's true that every one of the nine right-wing terrorists who've made the news since January 20 had a history... » read this article

As US troops and private contractors surge in Afghanistan, a new report reveals a system rife with abuse. Also, why is an executive of a major war contractor on the commission investigating contractors? Jeremy Scahill reports.   I’ve been reading through the hot-off-the-presses, exciting 100+ page report from the Commission... » read this article

At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu'rob, and he was suffering from a lung infection which was treatable. Denied basic equipment, the doctors in... » read this article

The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary. "Hank Paulson is a national hero. I said it last October and I'm sticking by it. And now, there's actual evidence to back me up. The TARP bailout worked. The Wall... » read this article

“On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.” - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) from “Dreams and Facts” Russell’s nihilistic characterization... » read this article

Protectionism. Capitalists were all for it before they were against it. When manufacturing took place in America, when they paid workers enough to buy the products they produced, adding a tariff/tax/fee on to the cost of imported goods made by these same manufacturers’ competitors overseas, was fine. It just made... » read this article

Reports, Resistance, and Resolutions Make Chevron Shareholders Question Oil Giant's Vitality Community Members, Richmond Mayor, Indigenous Leaders, Veterans, Shareholders, Among Groups That Surround Chevron Inside and Out May 27, 2009 An Alternative Annual Report San Ramon – Chevron shareholders were given a full account of the true costs of Chevron's... » read this article

(Wash., DC)  The results of eight years of Bush-Cheney at the helm make the demise of the Republican Party an easy call.  Our financial system is on life support.  The major banks are insolvent, according to banking and legal authority William K. Black.  If they're not, they're in intensive care. ... » read this article

The Anti-Empire ReportThe United States is "facing a nuclear threat in Iran" — article in Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, May 26 "the growing missile threat from North Korea and Iran" — article in the Washington Post and other major newspapers, May 26 "Iran's threat transcends religion. Regardless of... » read this article

President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media.  His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence.  A survey of the major foreign policy priorities of the White House reveals a continuous series of major setbacks, which call into question the principal... » read this article

Action, cut! Pornography, feminisation of the enemy? Confused over what Obama’s view on Guantanamo and the backlog of torture images from Abu Ghraib? Join the club, laments Eric Walberg The centrepiece of United States President Barack Obama’s PR campaign to show the world the US is the nice cop was... » read this article

I first visited Israel in 1969. It was a time when much of the western world was  still passionately enthused about the  country's triumph in the 1967 six-day war.  President Nasser had for years promised to sweep the Israelis into the sea.  Instead,  the tiny Jewish state, less than 20... » read this article

WHILE MOST people who would call themselves liberals have been quite pleased with  President Obama's debut, a growing minority is becoming restless at what they see as  the administration's too-easy capitulation to business forces. A case in point was Obama's May 10 announcement, which much fanfare and press hoopla,  of... » read this article

16 May 2009 Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi charges the CIA with lying to her about torture in a 2002 briefing, a charge denied by the agency. What it is certain is that she and the Democrats have lied systematically to the American people to obscure their complicity... » read this article

Bringing the threat of war to Russia’s borders is having wide-ranging repercussions, argues Eric Walberg As Russian troops marched to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany 8 May, NATO troops — 1,300 of them from 10 member countries and six “partners” — were beginning their month-long Cooperative Longbow/Lancer war “games”... » read this article

On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.  This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world wide. To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined.  What is the definition?  Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby... » read this article

Editor's Note: For nigh on 10 years I have been telling my friends that I've never been more optimistic in my life than I am now at age 66. Always, the response is a puzzled look or a query, "How can you say such a thing, when the world looks... » read this article

Scientific American has at times been very harsh on economists1 and as one would expect it does well with its articles on science, many of which I understand to a certain degree and others that are too technical for my knowledge.  A recent article on global food shortages rests in... » read this article

In 1950, approximately 7,500 children in the United States were diagnosed with mental disorders. That number is at least eight million today, and most receive some form of medication. Is this progress or child abuse? In the winter of 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the  results... » read this article

The Anti-Empire Report Okay, at least some things are settled. When George W. Bush said "The United States does not torture", everyone now knows it was crapaganda. And when Barack Obama, a month into his presidency, said "The United States does not torture"1, it likewise had all the credibility of... » read this article