I personally believe our attention should focus on the huge opportunity to pressure President Obama to responsibly withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq. But journalists and activists also need to contend with diversionary conspiracy theories at the same time. The American Right is blighted by conspiracy theorists who seem to believe Obama [...]

La decisión de EDF Trading, subsidiaria en Londres de la sociedad anónima francesa de capital público EDF SA e integrante del coloso energético EDF Group, de rescindir un contrato comercial de 2.8 millones de dólares con Exportadora del Atlántico S.A. (Grupo Dinant), para la compra de créditos de carbono en el Bajo Aguán, [...]

When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, universities and the Democratic Party—which once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible—wither and atrophy? When did reform through electoral politics become a form of magical thinking? When [...]

Afghanistan may be the graveyard of empires, but Iraq is home to a graveyard sense of humor. Iraqis wonder aloud whether the U.S. and Britain would have invaded Iraq if its main export had been cabbages instead of oil. However obvious the answer, a remarkable array of American pundits and pseudo-savants have [...]

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of Mexico and Japan serve a dangerous addiction, an addiction to blind optimism, a habituation of mind that allows us to dwell within provisional comfort zones but renders vast spaces of the world into deathrealms. After each catastrophe, there ensues a scramble [...]

The Obama administration’s decision to use a military tribunal rather than a federal criminal court to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others means the real motives behind the 9/11 attacks may remain obscure. The Likud Lobby and their allied U.S. legislators can chalk up a significant victory for [...]

Vosotros invadís Bahréin. Nosotros eliminamos a Muamar Gadafi en Libia. Es, en breve, la esencia de un trato cerrado entre el gobierno de Barack Obama y la Casa de Saud. Dos fuentes diplomáticas de las Naciones Unidos lo confirmaron independientemente de que Washington, a través de la secretaria de Estado Hillary [...]

Para esconder su desvergüenza, los voceros de la industria nuclear ahora afirman que todas las fuentes de energía tienen sus propios riesgos. Señalar los defectos ajenos para esconder las fallas propias es un viejo recurso retórico. Se emplea cuando uno está arrinconado y es especialmente útil cuando se han agotado los argumentos. [...]

Mentira, hipocresía y programas secretos. De eso no habló el presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, cuando explicó su doctrina libia a EE.UU. y al mundo. La mente se aturde con tantos agujeros negros que engullen esta espléndida guerrita que no es una guerra (una “acción militar, limitada en el tiempo, limitada [...]