“We’re on the Verge of Picking Someone Who Can’t Do the Job”: Fraying GOP Holds 3rd Primary Debate; Flat Taxes, Ending Medicare-Medicaid, Banning All Abortions: Meet New GOP Front-Runner Ben Carson; Is Jeb Bush Finished? Establishment-Backed Dynasty Candidate Might Not Overcome Family Ties; “Donald Creates His Own Reality”: David Cay Johnston on Trump Rewriting History … Continued


Despite Military Crackdown in Papua & Other Rights Abuses, Obama Hosts Indonesian President in D.C.; Massive Indonesian Plantation Fires Create Environmental Catastrophe Spewing Haze & Carbon Emissions; With Military Backing, TV Comedian Wins in Guatemala in First Vote Since Jailing of Ex-President; Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on “Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy”; In … Continued


Ignoring U.S. Destabilization of Libya, GOP Benghazi Hearing Asks Clinton All the Wrong Questions; “Seeking Asylum is Not a Crime”: European Rights Chief on Refugee Crisis & “Shameful” U.S. Response; Victims of U.S. Rendition & Torture Starting to Reclaim Rights Says Council of Europe Rights Chief; “Everybody is a Suspect”: European Rights Chief on Edward … Continued


“Domestic Terrorism”: Spate of Black Church Burnings Near Ferguson Raise New Hate Crime Fears; Shaker Aamer: After 5,000 Days of Torment, Last British Prisoner at Guantanamo is Set for Release; U.S. Ally Saudi Arabia Prepares to Behead, Crucify Pro-Democracy Protester Ali Mohammed al-Nimr; “Where Does This End?”: After Drone Papers Leaks, U.K. Gov’t Has a … Continued


Prison for Exxon Execs? Lawmakers Seek Probe of Oil Giant for Hiding Knowledge of Climate Change; Bill McKibben: Climate Activists Celebrate Obama’s Arctic Drilling Freeze & Harper’s Canadian Defeat; U.S. Sells New Warships to Saudi Arabia Despite Warnings of War Crimes & Civilian Deaths in Yemen; How a $100M Facebook Donation for Neoliberal School Reform … Continued