Iraq: a profitable ground for US arms sale

Iraq will buy weapons worth $13 billion from the United States by 2013 and will spend another $13 billion on weapons later, a Baghdad newspaper reported citing an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman, according to RIA…

Figuring Out What a Dollar Is Worth

There’s a lot to be said about the recent attack by conservatives on the Federal Reserve, though none of it is good. Representative Ron Paul of Texas will head the committee that oversees the Fed…

Tap Water of 31 U.S. Cities contains chromium 6

Tap water from 31 of 35 U.S. cities tested contains hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the carcinogenic “Erin Brockovich chemical,” according to laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG). The highest levels were detected in…

U.S. two party-system: same agenda

Many Americans  agree on one thing: the current two-party political system is broken. According to the new NBC/WSJ poll, only a tiny minority–15 percent–think the two-party system works fairly well. Fifty-two percent say it has…

U.S. offers Israel warplanes in return for new settlement freeze

  Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton’s incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer…

With good jobs going away, middle class downsizes

McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The good paying, predominantly white-collar jobs that once sustained many American communities are disappearing at an alarming rate, keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high despite the end of the Great Recession….