The McCain campaign has a new commercial contrasting the fabled hippie "Summer of Love" in 1967 and its message of "uncertainty, hope and change," with what it calls "another kind of love – love of country,” John McCain shot down, bayoneted and tortured.

In 2004, while campaigning for George W. Bush in New Hampshire, McCain said, “Without privatization, I don’t see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits.”

Double talk or simply uninformed? This week when a reporter asked Republican nominee John McCain whether it was fair for insurance companies to cover Viagra but not prescription contraceptives, John McCain awkwardly paused and then said, “I don’t know enough about it to give you an informed answer.”

The answer to one of the biggest questions in Washington D.C. has been manifesting for over five months and more than 8,000 miles that span across the sacred grounds of living sovereign nations.

Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall purpose of exposing where American interests have gone wrong in their interactions with the various peoples, beliefs, and religions of the Middle East.

Most people would not have even realized that the 23rd congress of the Socialist International was being held near Athens were it not for the moment when Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak shook the hand of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Ned Ludd. You've heard the name, read the book, very probably got the T-shirt as well. Now you can hear the music – courtesy of the Italian folk-roots band of the same name.

No doubt about it, autism rates have skyrocketed in the U.S. and beyond in recent years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the disease affects one in every 150 children born today in the U.S.

The buzz suggesting that Israel is considering a military attack on Iran refuses to recede. The buzz is designed to prepare public opinion for such an adventure. There is, of course, very little genuine discussion here in [Israel] of the fateful issues involved.

On June 30, 2008, Fulton County Superior Court denied Greenleaf Energy Associates, LLC, a permit to build a coal burning power plant in Early County, Georgia, on the Florida border.

For the first time this term, on June 12, 2008, the US Supreme Court split a decision on a case before it along political/ideological lines. It ruled that foreign detainees at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) have the right to appeal to US civilian courts. The decision came just as the first Gitmo trials are beginning.

The essay “How to Read and Understand History” was originally written in 1943. My copy is from a reprint published in 1957 by The Philosophical Library.

The chronic water shortage in the West Bank, resulting from an unfair distribution of water resources shared by the Palestinians and Israel, will be much graver this summer because of this year’s drought.

The world of journalism, like any other profession, can be muddled with a plethora of distractions, self-interests and agendas that certainly do not serve the cause of a free press.

Pesticides have greatly boosted agricultural yields over the last half century, so it is no wonder, given the commercial availability of many of these synthetic chemicals, that American homeowners apply 100 million pounds of the stuff each year to make their own gardens grow bigger and faster.

Democratic candidate Barack Obama's June 19 announcement that he would not accept public financing in the presidential race prompted a media furor.

It isn't much of an exercise to deceiver the coded language of the imperialist. Blatant aggression is labeled “national defense.” Crippling trade agreements that force one-sided structural adjustments that breed dependency and hegemony are called “free trade."

This book is written by a person with the right credentials to do so, as David Rothkopf has worked within the edges of the Superclass.

It’s Independence Day again. A time of family barbecues, fireworks and hawkish rhetoric with syrupy-sentimental overtones. It’s time to raise our flags a little higher, pray a little harder and join Sean Hannity in a mindless chorus of self-congratulation.

What is called "creationism" is the belief that in six days the Judeo-Christian god created the universe and all the earthly species including humans in finished form much as they exist today. For centuries this view prevailed throughout the western world.