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Solving the Euro Crisis

Solving the Euro Crisis Solving the Euro Crisis

The bottom line on bailouts for Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland must be help, not punishment.

May 19, 2011 / Mark Weisbrot

The Queen Comes to Ireland The Queen Comes to Ireland

The Irish government can bend for a British monarch, it seems, but it cannot apply the same rigid discipline to tax cheats and reckless investors.

May 18, 2011 / Jennifer O’Mahony

Jeremy Scahill: Inside Erik Prince’s United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill: Inside Erik Prince’s United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army

Why is Blackwater founder Erik Prince building a mercenary army for the United Arab Emirates? The contracted guns will be much less involved in maintaining the peace than they...

May 18, 2011 / Press Room

Jeremy Scahill: Inside Erik Prince’s United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill: Inside Erik Prince’s United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army

Why is Blackwater founder Erik Prince building a mercenary army for the United Arab Emirates? The contracted guns will be much less involved in maintaining the peace than they...

May 18, 2011 / Democracy Now!

The Middle East Speech That Obama Ought to Give

The Middle East Speech That Obama Ought to Give The Middle East Speech That Obama Ought to Give

Obama's Middle East policy has fallen apart. It's not too late to save it.

May 18, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss

Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran? Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran?

Blackwater's Erik Prince is building an army of mercenaries for the United Arab Emirates. One that includes no Muslims. What is going on here?

May 17, 2011 / Press Room

Le Scandale DSK

Le Scandale DSK Le Scandale DSK

Reeling in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest on rape charges, the French public has started to ask some soul-searching questions.

May 17, 2011 / Agnès Catherine Poirier

Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran? Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Starting a Proxy War Against Iran?

Blackwater's Erik Prince is building an army of mercenaries for the United Arab Emirates. One that includes no Muslims. What is going on here?

May 17, 2011 / The Rachel Maddow Show

Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing? Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

How the President and the Pentagon prop up both Middle Eastern despots and American arms dealers.

May 17, 2011 / Nick Turse

US-Taliban Talks in Qatar, Germany US-Taliban Talks in Qatar, Germany

Underway for months, the talks are aimed at starting what will be a long process toward a political settlement of the war.

May 17, 2011 / Bob Dreyfuss

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