Hillary Clinton’s Vision for America a Sharp Contrast to Tea Party Congress
By Peter Rosenstein.
As recriminations continue over whose fault it is that Democrats lost the Senate one potential positive is Hillary Rodham Clinton will be able to run full-out against the ultra-conservative Congress.
When as many [...]
Jamil Maidan Flores: Why ASEM Is Vital to Indonesian Interest
By Jamil Maidan Flores.
Late last week, the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) held its 10th summit in Milan, Italy. The event involved 51 nations from the two continents plus two regional organizations, the Association of Southeast [...]
US Midterm Electoral Results
By Stephen Lendman.
Ignore scoundrel media who won, who lost horserace rubbish. US electoral politics is too debauched to fix. Big money corrupts it.
Democracy is pure fantasy. None whatever exists. Most bums are reelected. [...]
School shootings and lone wolf attacks: What’s the difference?
By James M. Dorsey.
Michel Zehaf-Bibeau storms the Canadian parliament
A recent school shooting in the US state of Washington and a lone wolf’s assault on the Canadian parliament in Ottawa are but two of the latest headline-grabbing [...]
The US Senate Race in Kansas
By Frank Salvato.
“Independent” Greg Orman, who has so many Democrat Party operative working on his campaign one expects to see Nancy Pelosi’s name on his campaign headquarters door, has [...]
Is a leadership without meritocracy a true leadership?
By Lucas Manuel.
Several times, I have seen people really obsessed with issues of leadership that is why, I think, my question can be a key factor to take into account. For example, people talk a lot about the multiple professional [...]
Who was the median voter in Brazil?
By Josep Colomer.
The answer is: the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, PMDB). Many people may not have heard much of this party recently because the party didn’t run [...]
The Art of Gamesmanship in Political Debates: A Few Interesting Examples
By Rich Rubino.
The recent incident where Florida Governor Rick Scott refused to make his way to the debate stage for seven minutes because his opponent, former Governor Charlie Crist, had an alleged illegal cooling fan below the [...]
Obama’s Amnesty Travesty
By Alan Caruba.
People really need to read the U.S. Constitution. It says, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.”
The Constitution makes no reference whatever to [...]
Lavrov on Russian Foreign Policy
By Stephen Lendman.
Foreign relations minister of Russia Sergi Larov
It bears repeating what other articles stressed. He’s a world-class diplomat. Polar opposite his Western counterparts. On the right side of [...]
Oligarchy In America-Tyranny Of The Federal Judiciary
By Richard Larsen.
Two key decisions rendered by the Federal Judiciary this week severely challenge not only the foundational institutions of our society, but the fundamental operation of our republic.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced [...]
Russia and China, will the two super powers ever collide?
By Jon Kofas.
Russia and China have common geopolitical and economic interests at this juncture because they are both faced with common rivals. What brings them closer together is the threat that they perceive that the US poses to their security [...]
Killing Confidence in Our Government
By Alan Caruba.
What has been the over-riding theme of life in America since Barack Obama became President in 2008?
It has been the continued loss of confidence Americans have regarding various elements of the federal [...]
Green Haven Correctional Facility – When School and Society Fails
By Alan Singer.
Stormville, New York in Dutchess County is about a two-hour drive from Brooklyn. On a beautiful fall day when I made the trip with a female colleague, Felicia Hirata of Baruch-CUNY, the leaves on hillside trees [...]
The United States is No. 1 – But in What?
By Lawrence Wittner.
American politicians are fond of telling their audiences that the United States is the greatest country in the world. Is there any evidence for this claim?
Well, yes. When it comes to violence and [...]
Europe – the letzte Mensch or Übermensch, the new Byzantium or declining Rome
By Anis Bey.
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings (yet again, for the sixth year in a row, and for the third time this year only) no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU. [...]
Political Exaggerations: Stretching the Truth Is a Tradition in American Politics
By Rich Rubino.
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) said: “Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.” Politicians have apparently taken Galbraith’s words to heart.
Through advertisements and meetings with voters, [...]
President Ebola
By Alan Caruba.
What does it tell you when Britain and France have stopped flights to and from the nations in Africa where Ebola has become a threat and the United States has not taken a similar measure?
What does it tell [...]
The New Scourge
By Robert Slayton.
One of the problems with confronting and dealing with racism (and sexism) in this country is that we’re locked into old stereotypes. This prevents us from recognizing new forms of prejudice, and [...]
Obama doing the right thing
By Peter Rosenstein.
‘When trouble comes up anywhere in the world they don’t call Beijing, they don’t call Moscow, they call us,’ President Obama told ’60 Minutes.’ (Washington Blade file photo by Lee Whitman)
The president [...]