Al Qaeda Suspect Admits New York Bomb Plot
Al Qaeda suspect Najbullah Zazi pleads guilty to a plot to bomb New York and bring "martyrdom to Manhattan".

Former Gitmo Detainee Now Working for U.S.
That man, Taj Mohammed, wore a traditional thick, dark beard, but he also wore a fairly hip pair of dark sunglasses and smiled broadly while speaking a mix of English and Spanish.

Clashes after Hebron mosque declared Israeli heritage site
Confrontations broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Hebron on Monday, as public figures declared a general strike amidst growing anger at the Israeli cabinet's move to recognize shrines in the occupied West Bank as Israeli heritage sites.

Clinton criticized for dodging question on Israel nukes
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is criticized for dodging a question on Israel's nuclear arsenal during a "town hall" meeting at a Jeddah college.

About 50 Turkish commanders held over coup plot
Turkish police detained about 50 military commanders Monday in a crackdown that once would have been unthinkable, accusing the suspects of planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the Islamic-rooted government.

‘Unjustifiable’ airstrike kills 27 Afghan civilians
Elsewhere, warlord who tried to capture bin Laden in ’01 dies in bombing

Two more Britons caught up in Dubai Hamas hit
Officials are investigating claims that two further British passports may have been linked to the killing of a high-ranking Hamas official, a Foreign Office minister said today.

Are the 9/11 conspirators right?
Its been nearly nine years since the attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon. September 11, 2001 is a day which, for many, has already been explained. However, there is a movement that has been picking up a lot of steam, thousands of people who say accounts given to the people by the government are flawed, some even say false.

Flashback - FBI Could Also Have Thwarted WTC ‘93 Bombing
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

Bolton admits that 'things could go wrong' after military strike on Iran

Israel rejects recognition of Palestinian state
Israel on Sunday rejected the idea of foreign countries recognising a Palestinian state without a negotiated peace agreement, after France's foreign minister hinted at such a scenario.

To Believe or not to Believe
“The (British) Foreign Office denied claims that it had been tipped off about the use of British passports before the hit, insisting: “We only received details of the British passports a few hours before the [February 15] press conference held by the police in Dubai.”

Tony Blair: Israeli officials were part of decision to invade Iraq
In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US and UK governments to attack Iraq in 2003.

20 Ships to Head for Clash in Gaza
The Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation announced that a fleet of 20 ships would be sent to break Israel’s embargo on Hamas-run Gaza two months from now. Five of the ships will be under the auspices of IHH; the support of charitable businessmen in Turkey is being sought for funding to purchase them.

Bank of Israel Governor Fischer to Woo China on Iran
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to send Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer to China to try to convince the government there to support sanctions against Iran in the face of its insistence on developing nuclear weapon capacity.

U.S. places Iran nuclear issue on pressure track
The United States is placing its efforts to thwart the Iranian nuclear program on a "pressure track," head of U.S. Central Command general David Petraeus said in an interview to a U.S. network on Sunday.

Obama's Health Care Proposal Lays Blueprint For Democratic Action
President Obama officially released his own health care reform proposal on Monday in a last-ditch effort to unite the Democratic Party around some sort of comprehensive legislation.

The Articles OF Freedom
A Plan to save the Constitution

ACORN 'dissolved as a national structure'
The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed.

Pot use among seniors goes up as boomers age
In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of wine. A copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.

Brown votes for jobs bill, Joins Dem Majority
A modest job-creation bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday as the chamber's newest Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15 billion package of tax cuts and highway spending.

Schwarzenegger: Tea Party Is ‘Not Going Anywhere’
Officials are investigating claims that two further British passports may have been linked to the killing of a high-ranking Hamas official, a Foreign Office minister said today.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.

“Obama’s promises of change have atrophied”
RT has interviewed Kristine Huskey, a lawyer for Gitmo detainees, on what makes a beautiful woman quit her modeling career, go to law school and eventually represent the interests of so-called “terrorists”.

Homeland chief: Domestic extremism is top concern
Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday.

Powell Rebuffs Cheney on National Security (Video)

Paul: ‘The Revolution is Alive and Well’ (With Video from CPAC)
Ron Paul supporters came out in force on Friday, chanting their support for the Texas Republican congressman.

Bayer pesticide banned over threat to honeybees
A U.S. District Judge from Manhattan has banned the sale of spirotetramat, a pesticide produced by Bayer CropScience. Citing allegations by environmental groups and commercial beekeepers that the pesticide is toxic and is killing off the nation's honeybee population, Judge Denise Cote has declared that sales of spirotetramat must cease after January 15.

Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

US Air Force builds supercomputer using PlayStation 3s
A US Air Force research team has built a supercomputer using just over 2,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles, according to military news site Stars and Stripes. Dubbed the 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster it is almost 100,000 times faster than existing high-end processors.

Smoked Marijuana Can Be Effective in Treating Pain, Calif. Report Says
There is "reasonable evidence" that smoked marijuana can provide relief for certain pain-related ailments, according to a new report prepared for the California legislature by researchers at the University of California at San Diego.

JPL: Missing ice in 2007 drained out the Nares strait – pushed south by wind where it melted far away from the Arctic
This fits right in to what I’ve been blogging about for two years. the 2007 record minimum ice extent was wind driven not melt driven.

Goldman Issues Press Release On Greek Swaps, Pours More Gas On PR Fire
One wonders why pour more gas on the pr nightmare fire, if indeed everything was according to the books.

Redburn Partners On The Coming Gold War: "Gold Is Money And Nothing Else"
A must read paper by Redburn Partners, “Gold War – Gold is money and nothing else”, written in November 2007 can serve as an sufficiently comprehensive introduction to anyone wishing to get up to speed with the primary forces determining the price of gold and its implications in a fiat-money world.

Euro's Future in Question Even if Greece Saved: Soros
A makeshift assistance should be enough to rescue Greece but bigger problems facing Europe would leave the future of the euro currency in question, billionaire investor George Soros said.

Gold Survives Body Blows From IMF And Bernanke And Is Now Above $1120
Gold's action hasn't been particularly jawdropping of late unless you consider what it's been up against.

Fast-food breakfast sales decline as fewer head to work
The nation's high unemployment rate has thrown millions of people out of work, scared shoppers away from stores and threatened the economic recovery. Now it's taking a bite out of breakfast.

Dr. Doom has brighter view of Japan
Japan Inc. got an endorsement from a seemingly unlikely character Monday, when one of the investment world's so-called 'Dr. Dooms' had positive words for the Japanese stock market.

Millions of unemployed face years without jobs
Economists fear recovery will leave more behind than in past recessions

On the Brink of a Bond Market Apocalypse
Trusting Washington and Wall Street is bankrupting millions of Americans … and now they’re at it again!

Banks in Calif., Ill., Fla., Texas are shut down
Regulators shut four banks from California to Florida on Friday, boosting to 20 the number of U.S. bank failures this year following the 140 closures last year in the worst financial climate in decades.

Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals
The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for seven days.

Citi: China Sold Their Treasuries Because They Want To Buy Tons Of Gold
In regards to whether or not China truly sold down its holdings of U.S. treasuries recently, the situation remains a bit murky. But Citi’s Alan Heap thinks it happened for sure.

Presenting A Scientific Theory For The Fair Value Of Gold (With 88% Accuracy)
The greatest mystery in finance is and always will be what the fair value of gold is.

Pound slides further on surprise Fed rate rise
Sterling hit a nine-month low against the dollar on Friday as the US currency continued to gain broadly after the Federal Reserve raised its discount rate.

Asia Leads the Global End to Cheap Money
The U.S. Federal Reserve has just kick-started its cautious exit from unprecedented emergency lending measures — but the process has been going on for months in the Asia-Pacific region, underscoring the two-speed path of the global recovery.

Obama aggresses, media echoes lie Iran threatens to "wipe Israel off the map." Citizen action?
By Carl Herman
“Crimes against Peace” is the planning of a War of Aggression. It is illegal under several areas of law wherein all nations bound themselves to prevent the carnage of war: the UN Charter (treaty status), Nuremberg Principles (or London Charter, treaty status), and US military law. US political and media leaders continue war rhetoric to attack Iran, in direct violation of the most important law a nation should uphold (here for encyclopedic background).

Ron Paul Routs the Neoconned at CPAC
By David Franke
The Beltway Conservative establishment has its hands full right now, not to mention pie on its face. It has to explain how Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at this year’s just-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The 2012 Presidential Campaign Started This Weekend, And Ron Paul Is In The Lead
By Joe Weisenthal
Congratulations to anti-Fed, libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, who just won the first "primary" of the 2012 election!

The Nazis’ Murder of Jews, Communists and Gypsies In Gas Chambers Was an AMERICAN Idea
Believe it or not, the Nazis’ murder of Jews, communists and gypsies using gas chambers was actually an American idea.

What That CPAC Straw Poll Really Said
All the fascinating facts the media didn't report.

Are Dalai Lama visits with US, UK, France a “provocation” for China’s staged role in WW3?
The Dalai Lama confessed to receive CIA funds in their revolutionary attempts to split from China.

Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran
By Rick Rozoff
The war drums are being pounded anew and the world may be headed for a catastrophe far worse than those in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word
By Glenn Greenwald
It is the all-justifying term for anything the U.S. Government does. Invasions, torture, due-process-free detentions, military commissions, drone attacks, warrantless surveillance, obsessive secrecy, and even assassinations of American citizens are all justified by the claim that it's only being done to "Terrorists," who, by definition, have no rights.

Into a Thousand Pieces
So, why is this still important forty-seven years after President Kennedy's murder? As JFK himself said in his commencement address at Yale University on 11 June, 1962, "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

Because it appears to me that since that grim day in November 1963, the three illegitimate branches of our Federal government: the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Federal Reserve; have, using the myth created by the Warren Commission, increasingly usurped the power of the three legitimate branches to themselves, destroying America's long-term hope for peace and prosperity in the world.

Woman, 61, arrested for asking ‘why'
Four women, two of them well into middle age, were discussing funeral plans for a friend when an Atlanta police officer told them to move.

The Digital Dictatorship
It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia.

Lawmakers want to tax Amazon sales in California
The retail giant is among several that have no physical presence in the state. Legislative Democrats think a levy on them could bring in up to $150 million annually.

Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred'
The views of former Justice lawyer John Yoo were deemed to be so extreme and out of step with legal precedents that they prompted the Justice Department's internal watchdog office to conclude last year that he committed "intentional professional misconduct" when he advised the CIA it could proceed with waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques against Al Qaeda suspects.

Arizona speed cameras incite a mini revolt
A masked man, a citizens group, a judge and other motorists are behind the fight against photo enforcement.

Dispensaries Targeted For Simply Selling Weed; Pot Shop Owner Arrested For Sales
As part of today’s moves against 21 medical marijuana dispensaries, the owner of a pot shop near Culver City was arrested for selling weed.