Guantánamo captives are staging a fresh wave of hunger strikes ahead of the seventh anniversary of the controversial prison camps — a campaign a lawyer links to the speedy release of Osama bin Laden’s driver from U.S. military detention. Continue Reading

In an Op-Ed piece for the NY Times called The End of the Financial World as We Know It, Michael Lewis and David Einhorn explore what checks and balances should have been in place to prevent the US financial markets from running themselves into the ground in search of perpetual short-term gain. Continue Reading

If Obama truly supports Israel’s massacre of the Palestinians, as his silence suggests, there should be no celebrating on Inauguration Day. Continue Reading

Geoengineering — deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate — has long been a taboo subject in the climate debate, but that may be changing. Continue Reading

A decent article that goes into the background of the conflict between President Kerry and the Academic Community of the school. Continued at NYT »

A Muslim woman in the US state of Georgia was arrested Tuesday and ordered to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court after she refused to remove her headscarf, or hijab, upon entering a security checkpoint in an Atlanta courtroom. Continued…