As they held their wailing infants in their arms, two mothers fought after one of them tried to cut in the long line for children to receive treatment for severe malnutrition.
by William S. Becker The United States is very familiar with energy wars. Our long-time national energy strategy, as former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart points out, is to send our children off to kill and be killed in foreign lands to protect our access to oil. We may be witnessing the beginning of the end [...
WASHINGTON, August 6, 2011 (WAFA) - The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation delivered Friday to the US State Department an open letter signed by more than 125 groups, including 30 national organizations, and petitions signed by more than 25,000 people urging the Obama Administration not to vet...
From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams to chemical agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting edge of crowd control.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Months of political rancor and a tsunami of special interest spending come to a head on Tuesday with historic recall votes for Wisconsin state lawmakers that some see as a pointer for
This fabulous piece of analysis was originally published at the Oil Drum. Arthur E. Berman and Lynn F. Pittinger Shale gas has become an important and permanent feature of U.S. energy supply. Daily production has increased from less than 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day (bcfd) in 2003, when the f...
“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,” Giacomo Chiozza writes in the current Political Science Quarterly.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican who co-chaired President Barack Obama’s fiscal commission, says that the president is “a little bit smarter” than some of his critics, who “ought to give it up.”
The president has also always believed that a leader's job is to act on behalf of the people he serves, not to score political points. The president will never stop fighting on their behalf. I could not be prouder to be a part of his team.
Top PA negotiator condemns Israel decision to build 900 new homes in Har Homa, says illegal, goes against International Law and International Humanitarian Law.
The Israeli and U.S. positions on how to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians do not contradict one another, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.
Evidence of the utter phoniness of Netanyahu's new stance on Palestinian negotiations comes with the news of a proposed bill that would "make democratic rule subservient to the state's definition as 'the national home for the Jewish people.'"
Picture a college student appealing for a higher grade in his professor's office. The student admits to a mixed performance during the semester, but he still doesn't understand why the professor gave him such a low grade.