By traveling to Cuba and easing the embargo, President Obama signals reduced U.S. hostility but no apologies for the cruelty that Washington has inflicted on the Caribbean island for more than half a century, says William Blum. By William Blum The CIA’s…Read more →
U.S. officials love to lecture Cuba about its human rights flaws, but – in many ways – Cuba offers equal or better protection of human rights than does the United States, says Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn In advance of…Read more →
From the Archive: Hillary Clinton’s win in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses and her big lead in South Carolina restore her status as Democratic frontrunner but lingering doubts about her honesty and her coziness to Big Money continue to dog her path to the White House, a problem that Barbara Koeppel identified during Clinton’s first run in…
The biggest falsehood of Hillary Clinton’s campaign is to call Bernie Sanders a “single-issue” candidate, since he has actually addressed many issues. But Michael Winship says there’s some truth in the charge because Sanders has identified Big Money as the root of many problems – and that is true. By Michael Winship Maybe it’s that 50,000-year-old,…
The conventional wisdom is that Hillary Clinton is more committed to the African-American community than Bernie Sanders – and thus deserves the black vote – but Clinton supported the drive toward mass incarceration, vowing to bring young “super-predators … to heel,” as Marjorie Cohn recalls. By Marjorie Cohn Twenty years after the so-called “trial of…
From the Archive: The late Supreme Court Justice Scalia put his right-wing ideology above any respect for the Constitution’s Framers, even resorting to a made-up view attributed to Alexander Hamilton in Scalia’s dissent to the landmark upholding of the Affordable Care Act, wrote Robert Parry in 2012. By Robert Parry (Originally published on July 4,…
