Democrats have faced Republican strategies of grabbing hostages for decades and have quietly given in, paying ransom again and again. Will that change?
Obama pardoned three marijuana offenders and commuted the sentence of one crack offender, but the implications of his actions are not as optimistic as they may sound.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. November 22, 2011.
Obama granted pardons to five people, three with marijuana-related convictions, and commuted the sentence of a woman doing more than 20 years on a crack charge.
Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make America as ungovernable as possible by using almost any means available.
There is a raging battle going on in this country over whether we use our resources to benefit the haves or to protect those who don’t have as much as the most wealthy among us.
As much as Mubarak is a slave to US foreign policy, Obama is boxed in by geopolitical imperatives and enormous corporate interests he cannot even dream of upsetting.
Kevin Young, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 7, 2011.
A few drug lords, politicians, and corporate profiteers benefit, but most of the population suffers from increased poverty, migration, drug production, street crime, and violence.
For Wall Street, the holy grail was not cash handouts but a deconstruction of the complex public-private partnership ushered in by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Future historians will marvel at how U.S. leaders failed to learn from their horrific crimes in Indochina, and are instead repeating many of them today.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 18, 2010.
The Orwellian-named International Peace Operations Association didn't waste much time in offering the "services" of its member companies to swoop down on Haiti.
