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The stock-market crashes around the world are not symptoms of the disease but the cure. The disease is the excessive debt and leverage in the global financial system -- especially in the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia. The cure is the reduction of the level of debt.

Joby Warrick and Peter Finn’s Washington Post account of the 2002 torture of Abu Zubaydah is the most detailed and nuanced journalistic report to date of how

At her weekly press briefing this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) illustrated well how a political mind works in an election year. First, she

Last year, the Obama campaign promised to deliver a major speech on U.S.-Muslim relations in a Muslim capital during the president’s first year in office.

For a forthcoming piece, I was combing through the International Committee of the Red Cross’s formerly-confidential 2007 interviews with the 14 detainees who,

As Spencer noted, in responding to a federal judge’s order to turn over another batch of documents including President George W. Bush’s authorization of CIA

The Senate just agreed to end debate on the financial regulatory reform bill, 60 to 40. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Susan Collins

Ten months after the release of the Rolling Stone story that cost Gen. Stanley McChrystal his job as commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the

Chances are, if you live or recreate in Grand County, you’re worried about the future of Upper Colorado River tributaries like Ranch Creek and the Fraser River. And you’re probably also a little concerned by a report issued earlier this week by the U.S

By refusing to allow Guantanamo detainees to be transferred anywhere in the United States, including its supermax prisons, those representatives in Congress

Staff for Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who is positioning himself to become chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent reporters a Nov. 1 column

A subtle but strategically significant point raised by White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan at his press conference right now: The intelligence

Latino voters seem to have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats like governor-elect Jerry Brown and Sens. Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and Michael Bennet,

After weeks of relative silence about negotiations to end the state shutdown, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton went on the offensive Monday, announcing a statewide, weeklong tour across the state. Dayton also released a video articulating his arguments to the people of Minnesota and submitted an op-ed to newspapers across the state

Likely Republican caucusgoers sent a strong message to GOP presidential candidates in an Iowa AARP survey released Thursday, showing they’re strongly opposed to cuts to Social Security and Medicare and would much rather reduce military spending to address the federal deficit. That message could be made stronger by the fact that more than 20 percent of those surveyed are still unsure who they’ll support in the Jan

What’s there to say, really, about Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s argument that Barack Obama won the presidency because the press fell

The Iowa Independent has the story.

Below is President Obama’s memo on the detention of the sole detainee the Department of Defense is holding as an enemy combatant within the United

Moments ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) shot down a motion by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to proceed to legislation extending

If a legal challenge to the Emergency Manager law makes its way to the Michigan Supreme Court, the conservative majority will be faced with an ideological and political dilemma — a strict interpretation of the Constitution’s contract clause would deliver a victory for collective bargaining.

Eliza Manningham-Buller was the head of Britain’s domestic spy service, MI5, before retiring in 2007. Now she’s a member of the House of Lords. Perhaps this is

Closing The Washington Independent and reducing capacity at The New Mexico Independent are difficult milestones in an otherwise remarkable year for The American Independent News Network. We have been able to accomplish so much, and with so much less. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to give thanks to our current and former employees and contributors, our ongoing supporters and our readers.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as