Zelenskyy explained, “I told him that if he gave us the weapons we need and stopped supporting Putin, we would let him build Trump-branded hotels and other Trump-branded buildings in Ukraine’s ten largest cities, as well as Trump golf courses in the countryside. He was quite excited.”   read more

The United States wanted to bring democracy to Afghanistan, and now they have it, including the ugly side of electoral politics. In a move to shore up his support for the upcoming election, President Hamid Karzai signed a law that legalizes rape w...   read more

It took numerous complaints, two critical reports, and demands from Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama fire him, but finally NASA’s inspector general has stepped down. Robert “Moose” Cobb first got into hot water in 2007 when his close assoc...   read more

After a century of controversy, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi, with 55,000 members, is on the verge of complete federal recognition. A hearing on the matter was held on March 18th in ...   read more

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced earlier this week that a Chicago-based manufacturing company, Republic Windows & Doors, violated national labor laws when it shut down its unionized plant and relocated operations to a non-union ...   read more

Among the many problems plaguing America’s intelligence operation is the fact that a majority of those working for the nation’s top spy agency don’t have a clear understanding of their mission, according to a highly critical report released Wednes...   read more

If you’re a veteran and need to schedule a visit to a VA hospital, good luck. After eight years and $167 million, a project by the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a computerized patient-scheduling system has “all but collapsed,” accordin...   read more

What’s worse than paying hundreds of millions of dollars for military aircraft that never show up? Paying even more money and still no delivery. That’s what the Pentagon has done as part of the United States’ plan to rebuild the Iraqi military. Tw...   read more

The Obama administration is fooling itself if it thinks it can help banks rid themselves of their toxic assets by relying on the same system that created the mess in the first place. This according to Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia Unive...   read more

IRS records from 2007 show that the gap between the U.S.’s rich and the poor is widening significantly, judging from the difference between rich and poor counties’ adjusted gross incomes (AGI) and average salaries. Goochland County, Virginia, at t...   read more

Had Benjamin Franklin ever served as Secretary of Defense, he might well have added “cost overruns” to his now famous adage about “nothing is certain but death and taxes,” given how predictable the Pentagon has become in going over budget with wea...   read more

From Iraq to outer space, America’s soldiers and astronauts are having a tough time co-existing with their British and Russian counterparts. In Basra, where U.S. troops have been slowly taking over fro withdrawing British units, American GIs have ...   read more

No wonder General Motors went belly up. Nate Silver, in his political blog FiveThirty Eight, reviewed the operating margins of the legendary automaker from the 1950s to now. He found that GM has been headed for the junkyard for the past 50 years. ...   read more

It appears the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for making sure workers are treated fairly by their employers, spent its time during the Bush administration telling businesses, “Do as I say, not as I d...   read more

A tussle has already begun within the Obama administration over its environmental policy regarding coal mining. Throughout the Appalachian states of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, mountaintop mining—a controversial method of extracting coal by...   read more

If the AIG bonuses produced angry street protests over $165 million, then what’s going to be the response to the latest revelation that Merrill Lynch doled out $3.6 billion to executives after the federal government propped up the teetering firm w...   read more

Ayman Saeed Batarfi, an orthopedic surgeon from Yemen, is set to become the second prisoner released from Guantánamo Bay by a Justice Department task force. The government agreed last Friday to let Batarfi go after holding him for seven years. The...   read more