The global resurgence of violent Islamic fundamentalism can only be circumvented with a full comprehension and acknowledgment of what has historically gone wrong
Thomas Riggins continues with his analysis of Piketty's book - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken
An outrage borne witness to
Part 7 of Eric Toussaint's series 'The banks and the "Too Big to Jail" doctrine'
The Senate report on CIA torture reads like a Stephen King novel, a transcript from the Nuremberg trials, or Josef Mengele's notes from Auschwitz
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." (Alexander Pope, Essay on Man)
The Shas party has split into two. Opinion polls show that both parts are hovering around the 3.12% threshold which is now necessary for entering the Knesset, after the minimum was raised by the last Knesset
As a new report is published on the need to limit fossil fuel production to stop dangerous global warming, the UK is poised to pass an act committing governments to extracting as much oil out of the ground as possible, writes George Monbiot.
How many people are killed every year by the police in the U.S?