Iraq talks could pave road home for America (Robert Fisk)

The Iranian- Syrian- U.S.- Iraqi talks in Baghdad at the weekend might -- and it's a very flimsy "might" -- be the beginning of America's road home from its disastrous invasion and occupation of Meso ...

Netanyahu and Meshal forever (Gideon Levy)

In fact, this is the real "big bang": The political map of Israel has been upended. There is no longer right and left, no more hawks and doves. The center, the right and the margins of the left are u ...

10-Point Plan for Rebuilding the United States after Bush's Destruction (Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.)

9. Consider the possibility that the Republican ideology contravenes the Constitution because its policies and beliefs endanger the well-being of the people. Consider making the Republican Party ille ...

The Vice President Of The United States Of America (Mr. Fish)

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Portland Report (Tom Whipple)

Last week Portland, Oregon became the first governmental body in the United States to not only acknowledge that imminent peak oil is a reality, but also to publish a plan as to what the city should b ...

The Amphetamine of the Intellectuals (John Michael Greer)

One of the most inescapable dimensions of the crisis of industrial society is the hard fact that six and a half billion people now live on a planet that can support, at most, two billion sustainably. ...

Stocks to Weather Subprime Crisis, Credit Suisse Says (Alexis Xydias)

Stocks worldwide will weather a surge in U.S. subprime loan defaults because earnings growth and a robust labor market are enough to sustain the world's largest economy, according to Credit Suisse Gr ...

World Liquidity Crisis Emerging (Chris Laird)

In my judgment, we are possibly right at the cusp of a stock decline of the magnitude of the 1929 stock crash sometime this year.

Should President Bush Be Impeached? (Chuck Baldwin)

Congress should immediately commission an independent counsel to investigate whether President Bush and Vice President Cheney did indeed manipulate evidence and deliberately lie to the American peopl ...

30-day Countdown to War (Bob Moriarty)

We are almost certainly in the last days of a countdown to nuclear war.

‘Corporate Hippies’ Seek Their Bliss in a New Environmental Economy (Felicity Barringer)

“I would call myself a corporate hippie,” she said. “I’m in the business of definitely caring for and supporting environmental growth and change for the better, but I also believe in the growth of bu ...