FOREIGN POLICY

 

The Last Days of Kobani Loom as ISIL Closes in on Syrian Kurds by Juan Cole

 

The United States Empire  By Bruce Fein

 

ISIS in Washington : America’s Soundtrack of Hysteria

 

Iraq news reports say 18 civilians killed in strike aimed at militants

 

White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths

 

Syria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records

 

Argentina Dares to Call a Spade a Spade:  Naming Western Greed Economy As “Economic Terrorism”

 

Nuland Lands in Kiev as US-backed Regime Tools Up for War

 

Washington Is Destroying The World  By Paul Craig Roberts

 

Isis on the Verge of Victory in Kobani as US Strategy Lies in Ruins:   Jihadists close to taking city near Turkish border in Syria  By Patrick Cockburn

 

The University of Al-Qaeda? America’s “Terrorist Academy” in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders  By Mike Whitney

 

Making Iran the Ultimate Enemy

 

Rushing to War in the Wrong Places

 

Eroding Principles of Human Rights

 

The Why of Obama’s Failed Hope

 

Eyes Finally Open to Syrian Realities By Robert Parry

 

Who’s to Blame for ISIS ‘Surprise’?

 

Obama Does ‘Stupid Stuff’ in ISIS War

 

Official Washington’s Syrian ‘Fantasy’  By Robert Parry

 

Netanyahu’s ‘un-American’ stink bomb: What was he thinking?

 

EBOLA OUTBREAK

 

Ebola: Fight the Disease, Not the Victims  by Jesse Jackson 

 

As US Ebola Patient Dies, Another Potential Case Emerges

 

 

CIVIL LIBERTIES

 

Privacy, Free Speech on the Line as Court Considers FBI’s Warrantless Surveillance Program

 

China Overtakes US as World’s Single Largest Economy

 

‘Taking Stand Against Racism and Discrimination,’ Seattle Adopts Indigenous Peoples’ Day

 

 

CLIMATE CHANGE 

 

Climate Change to Bring Dramatic Surge in East Coast Floods, Scientists Warn

 

Twitter Sues Justice Department, FBI for Right to Reveal Scope of Government Surveillance

 

PRIVATIZATION

 

Charter school fraud has cost Pennsylvania at least $30 million

 

Students Walk Out After Attack on ‘Union that Defends Public Education’

 

 

HISTORY 

 

NYT’s Belated Admission on Contra-Cocaine  By Robert Parry

 

The Resurrection of Gary Webb by Jeff Cohen

 

“Kill the Messenger” Resurrects Gary Webb, Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA Ties to Crack Trade  By DemocracyNow!