US-Iran Talks Start October 1 US-Iran Talks Start October 1
The hawks, neoconservatives, and Israeli hardliners are squealing, but the US and Iran are set to talk. The talks will begin October 1, among Iran and the P5 + 1, the permanent me...
Sep 14, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness One Year of Bankster Bailouts and Meltdown Madness
Happy Meltdown Day
OK, not so "happy."
But this is the anniversary of the collapse of the house of cards that was Lehman Brothers.
Sep 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Around The Nation Around The Nation
I mostly avoided coverage of the weekend's 9/12 "teabagger" rally in Washington, DC; we were moving my daughter in to college. But the specter of race--and of conservativ...
Sep 14, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sanders Calls for National Dialogue on Afghanistan Exit Strategy Sanders Calls for National Dialogue on Afghanistan Exit Strategy
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold is declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghan...
Sep 14, 2009 / John Nichols
Resisting Foreclosures Resisting Foreclosures
In Georgia, the ease with which someone can lose a home is staggering. A foreclosure-eviction can occur without judicial review in just35 days, and at 10 a.m. on the first Tu...
Sep 12, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal EPA Turns the Lights on Mountaintop Removal
An important announcement suggests that environmental justice may be coming to the Appalachian coalfields.
Sep 11, 2009 / Feature / Jeff Biggers
Iraq: Employee Electrocuted, Family Searches for Truth Iraq: Employee Electrocuted, Family Searches for Truth
Jeremy Scahill appears with the Hermanson family, whose son Adam was killed in Iraq while employed with Triple Canopy, the "new Blackwater."
Sep 11, 2009 / Press Room
WTOP Yellow Journalism on Iran-Venezuela WTOP Yellow Journalism on Iran-Venezuela
Earlier this week, I lambasted Robert Morgenthau for his alarmist, fear-mongering speech at the Brookings Institution and op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he suggested d...
Sep 11, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Admin Under Siege by Right Wing Obama Admin Under Siege by Right Wing
The Nation's Ari Melber, Aimee Allison of KPFA Radio and others discuss the resignation of Van Jones and what it means for the larger political atmosphere.
Sep 11, 2009 / GRITtv
Palestine’s Peaceful Struggle Palestine’s Peaceful Struggle
The growing nonviolent mass movement against Israel's annexation wall is now meeting with stepped-up--and lethal--repression.
Sep 11, 2009 / Feature / Mohammed Khatib