The USA is very dangerous, lawless and aggressive state. The death toll in Latin America since 1980 from US backed coups and…
This blog post at interventionswatch talks about how Tom Malinowski, former ‘Washington Director for Human Rights Watch’, has just been named the…
Francisoco Toro wrote "I can’t wait, Edward, for you to get here. Because nothing shines a light of the immense fatuousness of…
The headline to this Rory Carroll article in the Guardian originally read: Rafael Correa not considering Snowden asylum: helping him was a…
Rory Carroll writes “Some in the government are believed to be annoyed that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has sheltered at…
There are benign leaks and harmful leaks just as there are real journalists and fake journalists. The Toronto Star ran this article…
I wouldn’t usually write to an outlet like Forbes but the way Rick Ungar lied about Edward Snowden was quite wretched even…
The stunning graphic above was put together by Melanie Patrick, but was the right wing press primarily responsible for the level of…
For several years Dean Baker warned US citizens that housing prices were following an unsustainable path. Prices were rising because elite investors,…
I couldn’t resist making the title to this blog post as wildly dramatic and accusatory as the headline to this Reuters article:…
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