Posts tagged united-states
Ali Hakan Altinay: Is the United States a Hero or a Villain?
Jul 4th
Another July 4th is around the corner, and the United States will turn 250 in less time than children born this week need to graduate from high school. Will humanity consider the U.S. a hero or a villain when that happens
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Loading ...Belkacem Bensayah Wins Appeal: Guantanamo Detainee Will Get New Hearing Over Terrorism Charges
Jul 4th
WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court says an Algerian protesting his Guantanamo detention deserves a new lower court review – to determine whether he was part of al-Qaida, not just a supporter.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Children Of Accused Russian Spies Confront Identity Crisis
Jul 3rd
NEW YORK — Children often ask the question “Who am I?” as they come of age, but that’s nothing like the identity crisis now confronting the sons and daughters of four couples accused of spying for Russia.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Kevin Zeese: Declare Your Independence!
Jul 3rd
Independent Media, Independent Political Movements and Independent Electoral Activity is the Path to the Paradigm Shifting Change America Needs If I had to pick one word for Americans who want real change, it would be independence.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dennis Santiago: Why the Supreme Court’s Ruling was a Long Overdue Victory for Civil Rights
Jul 3rd
This weekend we celebrate our Declaration of Independence, the birthday of a Nation still struggling to explore the meaning of equality and liberty for a plural people so disparate in origin that an entire planet is awestruck that it can hang together at all. Yet on Sunday one of the world’s youngest cultures adds another candle to being the oldest contiguous government on Earth
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Mull: What’s worse: Steele’s Afghanistan comments or the reaction?
Jul 3rd
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Eric W. Fonkalsrud, M.D.: An Alternative to Long-Term Unemployment Compensation
Jul 2nd
One of the most durable and popular government programs in the United States to deal with the problem of unemployment is that of unemployment insurance.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Azadeh Shahshahani: Time to Reckon with Torture
Jul 2nd
This past February, I was at a hearing in the Georgia House Defense & Veterans Affairs Committee to testify against a measure that would have had the effect of keeping the prison at Guantanamo Bay open by urging Congress to prohibit the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States. I read a statement to the committee issued by prominent experts on national security and counter-terrorism detailing how keeping Gitmo open endangers U.S. national security
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Joanne Carter: Congress leads on global education; will Obama follow?
Jul 2nd
Recent developments in the global movement to provide a quality education to the 72 million kids currently out of school present a study in contrast. While the administration has failed to deliver on President Barack Obama’s pledge to create a new Global Fund for Education, Congress is increasingly showing support for the idea. The recently concluded G8 summit, which has historically been an important platform for mobilizing global commitments to fighting poverty, was stunningly silent on expanding access to education.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rand Paul Likens Economic Decline To Fall Of Roman Empire, Warns Of ‘A Day Of Reckoning’ (VIDEO)
Jul 2nd
When Kentucky Republican Rand Paul took to the podium at a Tea Party rally in his home state Thursday night, the Senate hopeful compared the decline of the United States economy to the fall of the Roman Empire. The Courier Journal reports : “In the latter days of Rome, the economy was crumbling, the emperor …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...William Bradley: Meg Whitman Spins and Spends: Mrs. Harsh Faces A Harsh Reality
Jul 2nd
With campaigning disappearing as we head into the 4th of July weekend, something remarkable has taken place in the race to replace term-limited Arnold Schwarzenegger as California’s governor. We’re now essentially one-fifth of the way through the general election. Billionaire Republican wannabe governor Meg Whitman has spent a record-shattering $100 million
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Mull: All politics is local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War
Jul 2nd
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed below are my own
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...HUFFPOST HILL – JULY 1ST, 2010
Jul 1st
As the Senate bid farewell to Robert Byrd, whose eloquence and fealty to decorum recalled a bygone era, lawmakers reminded us why the late West Virginia senator was such a walking anachronism. Jim McDermott accused Republicans of engaging in class warfare, Lindsey Graham lashed out at the Tea Party and Chuck Schumer took a break from pickle hunting to remind air travelers that there’s probably a tentacle in their chicken.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert J. Lempert: Redesigning the International Approach to Climate Change
Jul 1st
Limiting climate change requires a revolution in the way the global economy generates and consumes energy. It is becoming increasingly clear that the current diplomatic approach — as evidenced by the results of last year’s Copenhagen Climate Conference and the follow-on talks completed in Bonn just this month — should be redesigned to meet this immense political, technical, and social challenge
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Human Rights First: Guantánamo: Fair? In Our Best Interest?
Jul 1st
By J. Adam Abram, Board member, Human Rights First On Wednesday, I attended a military commission hearing in the case of Noor Uthman Muhammed , a forty-something year old Sudanese man who is accused of being a member of al Qaeda
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Fred Branfman: Petraeus Is The Problem!
Jul 1st
PETRAEUS IS THE PROBLEM! When Rolling Stone Calls the Shots, It’s Time to Negotiate http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/when_rolling_stone_calls_the_shots_its_time_to_negotiate_20100630/ It is amazing how little commentary there has been on the key issue raised by the McChrystal Affair: Should U.S. war policy be made by Rolling Stone ? The very fact that it took a magazine article for President Barack Obama to remove Gen.
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