Where does all our military spending go? Tue, 14 May 2013 08:50:48 -0700
As much as $385 billion is being doled out to private companies like KBR, the former subsidiary of Halliburton

Bank of America's CEO Hosts Shareholder Analyst Day (Transcript) Wed, 08 May 2013 21:18:08 -0700
Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Analyst Day Call May 8, 2013 10:00 AM ET Executives Chad Holliday – Non-Executive Chairman Brian Moynihan – CEO Lauren Mogensen – Corporate Secretary Gary Lynch – General ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Management hosts 2013 Annual Shareholders Meeting (Transcript) Tue, 21 May 2013 16:56:01 -0700
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM) 2013 Annual Shareholders Meeting May 21, 2013 10:00 AM ET Executives Jamie Dimon - Chairman and CEO Steve Cutler - General Counsel Lisa Lindsley - AFSCME Michael Garland - New ...

Testy Exchanges and Scant Details Accompany Eric Holder's Grilling on Hill Wed, 15 May 2013 10:38:45 -0700
Testy Exchanges and Scant Details Accompany Eric Holder's Grilling on Hill

Democrats: Enough with Benghazi, already Thu, 16 May 2013 10:31:20 -0700
Republicans insist, meanwhile, that the administration is showing "remarkable arrogance" when it comes to controversies like Benghazi

CNN Washington AM Note Mon, 13 May 2013 03:09:44 -0700
NATIONAL STORIES: CNN Exclusive: CNN Exclusive: Brothers call Ariel Castro a 'monster' Ariel Castro's brothers no longer refer to him as kin. Instead, they call him "a monster" who should rot in jail after being accused of kidnapping and holding three young women hostage in his home for a decade. "I had nothing to do […]

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 5/1/2013 Wed, 01 May 2013 14:52:29 -0700
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:01 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Thanks for being here.  Sorry I am late.  I apologize.  I will go straight to your questions.  Julie. Q    Thank you.  Is there anything you can say at this point about these three other people that have been arrested in Boston, who they are or what they’re going to be charged with? MR. CARNEY:  I have seen ...

Holder On The Hot Seat Wed, 15 May 2013 10:35:06 -0700
Attorney General Eric Holder arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon for a flaying from lawmakers, who grilled him about an array of topics including the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records. Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee days after the AP reported that the phone calls of as many as 100 journalists were seized to determine the source of a ...

Engendering Progressive Politics In Nigeria: Checklist Of A Hard Road Traveler By Salihu Moh. Lukman Tue, 14 May 2013 03:48:30 -0700
By Salihu Moh. Lukman Growing up in Zangon Kataf, Ikara and Saminaka of Kaduna State between 1970 and 1975, it used to be extremely pleasurable to visit Zaria. Zangon Kataf, Ikara and Saminaka were then villages with no electricity, pipe-borne water and except for Saminaka none had tarred road. In all these three settlements, the only symbol of government were the local education authority ...

How Guantanamo affects China: Our human rights hypocrisies Sun, 19 May 2013 14:16:59 -0700
The U.S. uses the ideology of human rights as a political tool, embracing -- or ignoring -- it when convenient