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What we learned from de Blasio’s first year

Danny Katch measures the accomplishments and failures of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio against the expectations that his election would usher in real change. THE CHICAGO mayoral election is getting national attention because incumbent Rahm Emanuel–a national political…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Into the Heart of Darkness

The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a controversial regulatory and trade initiative. It is designed to integrate and coordinate the economies of the so-called Asia-Pacific region along global market-based lines. The signature trade proposal of the Obama administration, the TPP…

Let’s not fool ourselves. We may not bribe, but corruption is rife in Britain

By George Monbiot for The Guardian Allegations of a cover-up at Scotland Yard show that the British are as prone to malfeasance as any other nation It just doesn’t compute. Almost every day the news is filled with stories that…

In Selma, Memories of Bloody Sunday Spur Action Today

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Fifty years have passed since Bloody Sunday, that seminal event in United States civil-rights history when African Americans and their allies attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, demanding the right to vote.…

Violence against women: why we keep getting it wrong

With the passing of another International Women’s Day, during which much attention around the world has again been focused on tackling violence against women, I would like to explain why none of the initiatives currently being proposed will achieve anything…

The Greatest Heist in History

By Danny Katch The vast majority of Americans have been the victims of one of the biggest and longest-lasting robberies in history. Danny Katch investigates–and uncovers the culprits. THE TENTH richest person in America stood before a private audience in…

Natanyahu appearance in the US Congress a sad error

The fracas unrolled by Natanyahu’s speech to the USA Congress, when relating it to Asia issues, instigates a look back to World War II when Madam Chiang Kai-shek spoke before Congress, in 1943, at the time of the Cairo Declaration.…

International Women’s Day: the horror, the achievements, the work to be done

International Women’s Day is both a cellebration and a call to action. I watched a few days ago on the BBC the documentary “India’s Daughter”, that contains some the worst  violence and discrimination that still exists against women: “India’s Daughter…

A round up on Monsanto’s Roundup

Poverty almost always forms the root cause of society’s ills, no less so in the world of foodstuff production and its distribution besides the hot topic of terrorism and why young people are coaxed into its violent ways and means. Concerning…

Netanyahu’s dangerous, dishonest speech

Below excerpts of a longer analysis by Dr. Jahanpour on TFFs blog here. It also exposes how Netanyahu misused the Bible and what the reality is about the four Middle Eastern capitals that he stated were now controlled by Iran. The…

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