Organizers have begun to push for action by state legislatures to impede the electric, water and other services that sustain the NSAās secretive outposts
In the pressure cooker of Washington politics, J Streetās emergence has been mostly positive. But what does its motto āPro-Israel, Pro-Peaceā really mean?
American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain
A basic principle of journalism is to acknowledge when the owner of a media outlet has a major financial relationship with the subject of coverage
TheĀ New York TimesĀ is hardly a progressive newspaper — but when it comes to the surveillance state and ongoing militarism of the Obama…
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of theĀ Washington PostĀ is now doing big business with the…
Every new revelation about the global reach of the National Security Agency underscores that the extremism of the surveillance state has reached…
More than ever, Israel is isolated from world opinion and the squishy entity known as “the international community.” The Israeli government keeps…
Four years ago, countless Democratic leaders and allies pushed for passage of Barack Obama’s complex healthcare act while arguing that his entire…
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