Behind the Islamic State’s barbaric ways, the admirable effectiveness of its management often passes unnoticed. Charles Lister characterizes it as an “impressively managed, almost obsessively bureaucratic organization” with “a practical model fo... Read more
Introduction The European Union (EU) has been involving in intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1995, with the establishment of the Dayton Agreement in cooperation with NATO and the United States (US) as well as the Stabilization and... Read more
The capital of South Sudan, Juba, has been named the most expensive city for expatriates. That’s according to the annual ranking by global consulting firm ECA International. This ranking was calculated by looking at inflation and exchange rates,... Read more
In the world according to Republican presidential candidates, inequality isn’t a problem and climate change doesn’t exist. The Fox News debate between ten of the top presidential contenders in the Republican primary largely ignored t... Read more
Someone at the Pentagon must have clicked a bad link. According to reporting by the Daily Beast and NBC, Russia launched an attack on the unclassified email network used by America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the body of senior military officials t... Read more
ISIS has lost almost 10 percent of its territory so far in 2015, yet another indication that the group, for all the terror it has sown in Syria and Iraq, is losing the war. Defense analysis group IHS Jane’s 360 detailed the territorial los... Read more
On July 28th, Thom Hartmann interviewed former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and, at the very end of his show (as if this massive question were merely an aftethought), asked him his opinion of the 2010 Citizens United decision and the 2014 McCutc... Read more
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Maryland Representative Donna Edwards joined the rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicare in Washington, D.C. this Thursday with several hundred nurses, health care workers, and labor allies. Senator... Read more
Concerns have fast grown in Russia and in the republics of Central Asia over extent of possible Islamic State (IS) influence. Out of an estimated 20,000 foreign recruits fighting for IS and other extremist groups in Iraq and Syria it is believed... Read more
It was a year ago last Friday (July 17) that the Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a missile over eastern Ukraine, resulting in a loss of 298 lives. The shock of that tragedy awakene... Read more