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Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?  The answer is in the question: the programme persists because it doesn’t work, writes George Monbiot.

In its pursuit of a free-market utopia, the US right tried to crush unions, the legal profession and all the pillars of the left. It will not stop there, warns Thomas Frank.

We praise the charismatic American candidate and damn our prime minister, but neither holds sway on what rules our lives, writes Jeremy Seabrook.

As America struggles to avoid recession, the world economic order appears to be heading for a drastic overhaul - creating pressure for world leaders to ditch the fast-declining U.S. dollar, writes Massoud Hedeshi.

Noam Chomsky, the renowned US academic, author and political activist, speaks to Avi Lewis on Al Jazeera's Inside USA. They discuss whether the US election this year will bring real change, the ongoing conflict in Iraq and why Americans should look to their Southern American counterparts for political inspiration.

Barack Obama may represent a hope for reviving American democracy, writes Zeki Ergas, but only if he challenges the overwhelming influence of big business, neoliberal globalization and the interests of American imperialism.

Guantánamo has proved a useful distraction from the secret detention camps run by the US around the world, writes George Monbiot.