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Another year has passed since 9/11, and it seems as though accountability for those who financed and supported the perpetrators is further from reality than ever. While yet more evidence has surfaced this year about the people involved in covering up the crime, secrecy reigns supreme in Washington. Yelling “national security” a whole lot, […]
US Threatens International Criminal Court Over War Crimes Probe ; Will US and Russia Fight in Syria? …and More Picks 9/11
Prison Work Strike Persists ; House Dems Challenge Trump-Backed War in Yemen …and More Picks 9/7
Bezos More Powerful Than Trump? ; Fifteen Years of Forever Wars …and More Picks 8/21
A look at how the next generation of Republicans is doing in the Trump era.
Apple Tries to Pay Less in Taxes ; Putin Meets Another Western World Leader …and More Picks 8/14
An obscure case of an American pastor jailed in Turkey and a failed prisoner exchange have spiraled into declarations of economic war between the US and a key NATO ally.
Want to understand the consequences of pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal? What it means for the US, Iran, and rest of the world? Listen to this conversation with Iran scholar and former Iranian ambassador and government official Seyed Hossein Mousavian.
Firing Journalists to Pay Execs ; ISIS Attack in Syria Leaves 200 Dead …and More Picks 7/26
Bill Browder talks about being on the top of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most wanted list, his personal safety, and his shock at President Donald Trump’s reaction to Putin’s Helsinki proposal.
Trump and Putin in Syria? Not So Friendly ; Where Coca-Cola Is More Plentiful Than Water …and More Picks 7/18
Trump Admin’s New Attack Against Immigrants ; Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to Campaign Together …and More Picks 7/16