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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

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

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a push for Hispanic voters Tuesday by arguing Republicans are to blame for the Senate’s inability to move forward with

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,

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

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

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

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.

Yesterday, the co-authors of John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life spoke at the Center for American Progress, discussing the late justice’s evolution from

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.

One of the first things I saw when waking up and checking my BlackBerry was a sardonic note from a contact who works on Afghanistan issues remarking on how much

Some sectarian turnover might be on the way for Iraq’s myriad intelligence agencies, according to a senior U.S. military adviser. Col. Benjamin D. Lukefahr,

Americans for Peace Now, another dovish American Jewish lobby group, comes out with a statement on the congressional Goldstone resolution that’s similar,

Via ThinkProgress, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton observed the safe return of Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea by saying, I worry that the outcome

Once it became clear that failed insurance giant AIG got away with far more than it deserved in negotiations for its government bailout, led by Treasury

The New York Times plays up Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s contention before a British think-tank audience that the U.S. ought not to adopt a counterterrorism-heavy

The U.S. government has agreed to pay a total of $1.26 million dollars to five men who claim they were illegally detained and mistreated after the Sept. 11,

So tomorrow Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, will visit the White House, under the shadow of last week’s Israeli raid of a flotilla

Eric Kleefeld and Matthew Yglesias point out something that hasn’t gotten too much attention. There were two-anti tax measures on the ballot yesterday in Maine

Turns out the final language included in the agreed-upon stimulus bill does indeed include protections for employees of government contractors -- like KBR,