In October of 2008, while the economy was in the early stages of what the IMF called “the worst recession since World War II,” the Washington Post reported that the “stock market’s prolonged tumble has wiped out about $2 trillion in...
Information from the “Panama Papers” continues to be made public, fostering global reaction. The Reykjavík Grapevine reports that the prime minister of Iceland just resigned following protests. CHUCK COLLINS, (617) 308-4433, chuckcollins7@me.com Collins is...
Bahrain, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates on Monday severed or downgraded diplomatic ties with Iran, in the latest sign that Saudi Arabia’s rash of brutal executions over the weekend has touched off escalating—and dangerous—geopolitical rift with region-wide...
The United Nations security council has unanimously approved France’s resolution to take “all necessary measures” against the Islamic State (ISIS) and urged all able member states to join in the fight. The 15-member panel adopted the resolution...
CEOs got an average 3.9 percent pay increase last year. This increase is subsidized by taxpayers because corporations can deduct it as an expense. Meanwhile, America’s struggling seniors will receive no cost-of-living allowance (COLA) increase next year because the...
Just days after French President François Hollande vowed a “merciless” response to the Paris attacks, his government on Thursday submitted a resolution for the United Nations Security Council to “take all necessary measures” against ISIS. The...
As the French government launches a major retaliatory bombing campaign against the ISIS-held Syrian city of Raqqa, observers warn that President François Hollande is taking a page from the widely discredited playbook of former American President George W. Bush....
As a wave of French airstrikes targeted the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria overnight and as British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for the UK to respond similarly to Friday’s attacks in Paris, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday warned against a...
Prosecutors for the International Criminal Court declared Thursday that they have information which “suggests” that U.S.-led, international forces in Afghanistan are responsible for “physical and psychological” violence and torture that...
Loved ones have long charged that U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet had a direct hand in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his Institute for Policy Studies colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Now, they may finally be vindicated....
While direct criticism of capitalism in mainstream politics is not unheard of in U.S. history, it is unusual for modern times. “From the late 1970s to fairly recently, this was certainly outside the norm as a combination of Cold War politics and Reaganomics and...
As the Obama administration’s policies of regime change and armed intervention in Syria flounder, the retired general who oversaw the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan added his voice to the hawkish chorus calling for even more aggressive bombing and military...
The nuclear agreement between the U.S., Iran, and other world powers cleared an important congressional hurdle in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, but don’t expect former vice president Dick Cheney to be happy about it. Despite holding no elected office, former vice...
Pay incentives for the chief executives of the biggest publicly-held fossil fuel companies in the U.S. are worsening climate change by encouraging recklessness from management teams and rewarding companies’ strongholds over oil, gas, and coal reserves, according...
In a move supporters are cheering as a victory for workers—and filing under the “better late than never” category on the part of the government—the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted to adopt new rules requiring a public company to...
