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2015 “Are you serious?” awards

January 6, 2016 By Conn Hallinan

Each year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make following the news a daily adventure.

Sept. 11: Flaming death from the sky

September 11, 2015 By Emile Schepers

The date was September 11. The airplanes came in at rooftop level. In seconds the great building was ablaze, and many lay dead. In the aftermath, cold-hearted reaction took over power in the country, repressing left,...

L’Humanité: France should offer asylum to Snowden and Assange

August 12, 2015 By Bruno Odent

A basic gesture of solidarity is indispensable in respect of whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

The cost of war for families

January 13, 2015 By Rossana Cambron

In February of 2014, Senate Republicans blocked a $21 billion plan to build new VA clinics because they said it was too expensive.

U.S. foreign policy, what is going on?

September 19, 2014 By Conn Hallinan

The U.S. foots 75 percent of NATO's bill, increasingly hard to do given the enormous costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars, the pivot to Asia, and the war in Syria.