Somali pirates vow revenge over comrades' killings
Somali pirates threatened revenge on Sunday after two separate hostage-rescue raids by foreign forces killed at least five comrades, raising fears of future bloodshed on the high seas.
Thai troops move against protesters
Troops in Thailand have begun cracking down on anti-government protesters, with shooting heard in the capital, Bangkok.
Iran accuses Netherlands of overthrow plot: report
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards has accused the Netherlands of plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime by supporting the opposition through the media and the Internet, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Summit of the Americas: Anti-corruption accord was a first
It was a bright Saturday in December 1994 when hemispheric leaders who gathered for the First Summit of the Americas stood for a photo in the Vizcaya gardens in Miami with stiff smiles and a formal wave.
AIG in spotlight over derivatives
The unit that all but destroyed AIG has failed to sign up for the overhaul of the global derivatives market which was given added impetus by the troubles at the US insurance group.
AIG confirmed that its financial products unit, whose soured bets on credit default swaps forced the company into government hands last year, did not adopt the “Big Bang” protocol that has been signed by more than 2,000 market participants.
Contractors Cash in on HUD Program, Not Poor
A federal program designed to help poor families buy affordable homes has actually been lining the pockets of investors and contractors.
Black market nukes
We pay a lot for "national defense."
The four branches of the military, the CIA, the NSA, and god only knows what else.
Here's a guy dealing in black market nuclear weapons - and a bunch of rag tag low budget journalists can find him.
Why isn't this guy and all the others like him being shut down?
Russia, Iraq call for fair new world order
Russia and Iraq signed a joint communique here on Friday, calling for the establishment of a new world order and speaking highly of the agreement on the forces pullout from Iraq, local media reported.
Nationwide Tax Revolt Is Coming Cities, states, and municipalities have a huge budget problem. That problem is caused by too much spending. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce expenditures.
Key U.N. Powers Agree on N. Korea Statement
The U.N. Security Council's five permanent powers and Japan reached agreement Saturday on a statement condemning North Korea's April 5 rocket launch over Japan. The text would revive a 2 1/2 -year-old threat of financial and travel sanctions against individuals and entities linked to Pyongyang's missile program.
Zimbabwe shelves own currency for one-year
The Zimbabwean government has decided to suspend the country's national currency for a year, which has in fact already disappeared from circulation, state-run media reported Sunday.
Navy Frees Captive U.S. Cargo Ship Captain Phillips
U.S. Navy forces freed Richard Phillips, the American cargo-ship captain held by pirates off the coast of Somalia, killing three of his captors and taking one into custody, the Navy said.
Ginsburg And Foreign Law In Interpreting Our Constitution
In wide-ranging remarks, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by U.S. judges and suggested that torture shouldn't be used even when it might yield important information.
Obama half-brother ‘linked to UK sex attack’
BARACK OBAMA’s half-brother has been refused entry to Britain after reportedly being accused of an attempted sex attack on a 13-year-old girl on his last visit.
Mexican drug wars force police to claim asylum in US
When Lieutenant Salvador Hernandez heard his name was on a death list posted by drug gangs in the violence-gripped Mexican border city of Juarez, he knew it was time to skip town.
Ron Paul, Right About the Economy, Right About Freedom
By Szandor Blestman
Last year in the debates Ron Paul was right about the direction the economy was taking. He was right about the federal government disregarding freedoms. He remains right about establishing a new, sound monetary system based on something other than debt.
New bird flu cases suggest the danger of pandemic is rising
First the good news: bird flu is becoming less deadly. Now the bad: scientists fear that this is the very thing that could make the virus more able to cause a pandemic that would kill hundreds of millions of people.
Key Dutch party: Sanctions against Israel if it thwarts peace
The Netherlands must impose economic sanctions against Israel if the new government in Jerusalem thwarts the peace process with the Palestinians, the Dutch Labor party said last week.
Flashback - Piracy in the Red Sea: Saudi points towards Israel
Not only do columnists and analysts openly accuse Israel of sponsoring acts of piracy that multiply off Somali waters, but they also do not hide their fears of an internationalization of security in the Red Sea, where Israel plays a decisive role.
U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion
In the dying days of the Bush administration, and a week before Israel launched an aerial bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of the Gaza Strip, the U.S. military shipped 989 containers of munitions to Israel.
Banker charged with stealing from elderly
A suburban banker befriended some of her elderly customers, then used the trust she had gained to steal more than $100,000 from their accounts, DuPage County authorities said Friday.
Ghost in the terror machine
Rauf’s plans for Europe-wide attacks leave intelligence agencies rushing to locate and defuse a group of ticking timebombs. Whether he is dead or alive, those ticking bombs are his real legacy.
Politically Timed "Terror" Arrests - the Real Bob Quick Scandal
By Craig Murry
The mainstream media is in a flurry of excitement over the “Terror” arrests of students in the North West of England. Linked to this is the media feeding frenzy over the resignation of Bob Quick, Scotland Yard’s anti-terror chief. It is important to note that the Quick incident only brought forward the arrests by a few hours. Yet in all the acres of coverage in the newspapers, and all the hype on TV, nobody seems to have noticed the real story.
More political turmoil expected if Zardari does not ink peace deal
Pakistan could witness more political turmoil coupled with law and order problems in its sensitive Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan if President Asif Ali Zardari refuses to sign a peace deal between the provincial government and cleric Sufi Mohammad in the next few days, officials said.
150 militants attack U.S.-NATO supply line
About 150 militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons attacked a transport terminal in northwestern Pakistan that lies along a key supply route used by U.S. and NATO troops, wounding three guards and torching eight cement trucks Sunday, police said.
Rioting follows state of emergency in Thai capital
Thailand's ousted prime minister called for a revolution Sunday after rioting erupted in the capital, with protesters commandeering public buses and swarming triumphantly over military vehicles in unchecked defiance after the government declared a state of emergency.
Warships track U.S. hostage floating to Somalia
Military helicopters flew over Somali pirate lairs and battleships stalked a boat on Sunday in which gunmen were holding an American hostage in a five-day high seas standoff.
K'Naan on Somali Pirates
Somali-Canadian poet, rapper and musician says the Somali hijacking is in part a response to multinational companies dumping nuclear waste in his country.
You are being lied to about pirates
By Johann Hari
Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome?
The Great Geithner Coverup
Economist William K. Black of the University of Missouri appeared in an interview on PBS last week with Bill Moyers. He pulls no punches in spelling out who is really responsible for our current economic disaster, and why our own Treasury Secretary is leading the charge to keep the truth covered up. Here's the Full Moyers interview with WIlliam K. Black
Hundreds of Ill. patients possibly exposed to TB
Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a contagious health care worker, officials said Friday.
Is That Recovery We See?
By John Mauldin
The P/E ratio for the end of the second quarter is 1944 (not a typo). The losses of the 4th quarter wipe out almost all earnings for the 12 months ending June 30. But by the end of the 3rd quarter, the estimated P/E ratio has dropped to a (negative) -467. That has never happened. We have never seen negative earnings over a 12-month period since WWII.
Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009
There's a new bill working its way through Congress that is cause for some alarm: the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (D-ME). The bill as it exists now risks giving the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet without necessarily improving security in the ways that matter most. It should be opposed or radically amended.
"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!"
By Mike Whitney
On Tuesday, a congressional panel headed by ex-Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren released a report on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's handling of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).
Flashback - Argentina's Economic Collapse
Will it happen here?
Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina's assets and resources were shamefully plundered.
North Carolina, Colorado Banks Shut as 2009 Failures Reach 23
Banks in Colorado and North Carolina were shut as rising unemployment and a loss of jobs shrinks household wealth in the deepest recession in a quarter century, pushing the toll of U.S. bank failures to 23 this year.
'Terror plotters' allowed to stay despite visa breaches
At least two of the men suspected of being members of an alleged al-Qaeda cell had been allowed to stay in Britain despite allegedly breaching the conditions of their student visas.
Treasury tells US investors to buy American
US private investors are to be encouraged to "Buy American" as a number of financial houses prepare to launch investment bonds that will allow individuals to part-fund the American government's $1 trillion (£682bn) toxic asset clean-up.
Nigeria oil unrest 'kills 1,000'
Violence in Nigeria's oil region left 1,000 people dead and cost $24bn (£16bn) last year, a report says, according to an official and activist.
Pirates seize 10 Italians in U.S.-owned tugboat
Pirates captured a U.S.-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew including 10 Italians on Saturday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden.
The Somali Pirates of Israel
It doesn't take many grey cells to see that the US and Israel are up to some of their usual mischief in creating this pseudo-crisis about Somali pirates. When the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) held sway over Somalia, piracy had been virtually eradicated.
Old NASA Tapes Reveal Stunning New Moon Images; Resolution Unparalleled
In an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant on NASA Ames property in Mountain View, a pirate flag is taped to the window. Inside, it gets even stranger. Three researchers huddle around a wheezing 45-year-old Ampex FR-900A tape machine, a one-of-a-kind reel to reel 2-inch model designed to record data for the National Security Agency. It now sits where people used to wolf down Big Macs.
The Government Is Already "Geo-Engineering" The Environment
The AP report states that Obama's science advisor John Holdren is pushing
for radical terra forming programs to be explored such as creating an
"artificial volcano". Despite Holdren's admission that such measures could
have "grave side effects," he added that, "we might get desperate enough to
want to use it."
The Obama administration and torture
By Tom Eley
On Thursday, Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), issued an internal memo declaring the Obama administration’s opposition to the investigation of intelligence personnel who carried out torture under the Bush administration.
Thai protesters force Asia summit cancellation
A summit of Asian leaders in Thailand was canceled on Saturday after anti-government protesters swarmed into the meeting's venue, renewing doubts about the durability of the government.
China’s Currency Reserves Rise Least in Eight Years
China’s foreign-exchange reserves, the world’s biggest, had their smallest gain in eight years as exports slumped and the slowing economy deterred investment from abroad.
Foreign-currency holdings rose about $7.7 billion in the first quarter to $1.9537 trillion, the People’s Bank of China said today on its Web site. That was the smallest increase since the second quarter of 2001 and compares with a $40 billion jump in the fourth quarter.
Germany muzzles WikiLeaks
On April 9th 2009, the internet domain registration for the investigative journalism site Wikileaks.de was suspended without notice by Germany's registration authority DENIC.
Iran’s ‘Outlawed’ Nuclear Program
By Jeremy R. Hammond
The complicity of the mainstream corporate media in the West in constructing the framework wherein U.S. policy actually sounds somewhat reasonable is in large part the reason why such a hypocritical and erroneous policy is allowed to continue.
U.S. budget deficit triples to $957 billion for year
The U.S. federal budget deficit rose to a record $956.8 billion in the first six months of the fiscal year after the government stepped up spending to cope with a recession that has depressed tax receipts, the Treasury Department reported Friday.
I was alarmed at the recent opinion brief you posted on your website advocating the outlawing of so-called “assault rifles”.
Lawyers, judges bitter at Obama Guantanamo delays
Lawyers and judges working on Guantanamo Bay legal cases are showing signs of exasperation at President Barack Obama's administration, which they accuse of slowing federal judicial procedures for detainees.
Pirates foil skipper's 'escape bid'
The US skipper held hostage on a lifeboat by Somali pirates reportedly dived overboard to escape, but was recaptured soon after.
Antarctic Sea Ice Up Over 43% Since 1980, Where Is The Media?
Sea ice at Antarctica is up over 43% since 1980 and we hear nothing in the news, yet Arctic ice is down less than 7% and they're all over it! We've been waiting for the main stream media to pick up on the increase of Antarctic ice but so far they're been totally absent. Guess its doesn't fit the plan.
US court allows apartheid cases
A US court has ruled that victims of South Africa's apartheid-era government can sue General Motors, IBM and other corporations accused of complicity in human rights abuses.
Reporter's recording confiscated at veterans event
A Washington D.C.-based radio reporter says his audio storage device was inappropriately confiscated Tuesday by Veterans Affairs officials after he interviewed a patient at a VA Medical Center forum.
Blogger Gets 10 Years for Insulting Thai Monarchy
Suwicha Thakhor's nightmare in a Thai jail is set to continue after a court delivered a harsh verdict this week that contained a unequivocal message - the Internet in this country is being policed with the aim of limiting free expression.
Somali Pirates Send More Ships to Area of Standoff with US
Maritime officials in east Africa say Somali pirates are sending several hijacked ships carrying dozens of hostages to the site of a standoff with the U.S. Navy over American captive Richard Phillips.
Homeland Security Secretary Can’t Say If Illegal Aliens Will Get Stimulus Money
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday could not say whether $100-million in additional funding for a program that helps hungry and homeless people throughout the United States would be used to provide services to people who are in the country illegally.
Scramble to find the Easter bomb factory
A desperate search was under way last night for the terrorist bomb factory from which a suspected al-Qaeda cell planned to launch a devastating attack in Manchester.
Diagnostic Abuse of Veterans
By Stephen Soldz
Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin in Salon have just published the first of a three-part series on pressure from the military to not diagnose soldiers with PTSD.
Lies and Innuendo in the Ian Tomlinson Case
The American tourist who captured on video what may have been the second assault on Ian Tomlinson by the Police, has done us a great favour.
The Theft of a Nation
By Stewart Dougherty
Is it plausible that an entire economy could be looted for a decade without regulators, politicians, or banking insiders knowing or doing anything about it?
Obama’s Got a Secret
By Scott Horton
President Obama not only steps into the shoes of his predecessor, he actually has his Justice Department make still more preposterous arguments in which they insist they are above accountability to the law. Their new mantra is “sovereign immunity,” by which they lose consciousness of the annoying detail that, in America, the people and not the President hold sovereignty.
Hope Abandoned: Obama Protects and Promotes CIA Torture Mavens
By Chris Floyd
It was obvious from the moment that Barack Obama appointed Leon Panetta to head the CIA that there was going to be no serious investigation -- much less prosecution -- of the high crimes of torture committed by the agency at the order of the Bush White House. Panetta, a Clinton retread (who actually began his career in the Nixon administration), has always been a bland, feckless, obedient servant of the Establishment; he has no outside power base, no pull, no heft, no popularity -- nothing that would enable him to grab hold of the CIA with both hands and clean that fetid, blood-encrusted house. And of course, it was precisely this kind of powerless figure that Barack Obama wanted in the post.
Nullification Reconsidered
By Clyde Wilson
With the destructive evil of centralized power becoming every day more evident and 10th Amendment resolutions appearing in various State capitals, publication this month of the second volume of Professor W. Kirk Wood’s magisterial three-volume Nullification: A Constitutional History, 1776–1833 is serendipitous.
For the first time in a half century and long past due, serious people are beginning to search for ways that the famous "checks and balances" of the American constitutional order might be invoked against a regime which recognizes no limits to its power. Such a search leads naturally to a new look at accepted history and "law." Prof. Wood, whose knowledge of the primary documents of early American history is astounding and incomparable, has marshaled overwhelming evidence on the matter.
60 drone hits kill 14 al-Qaeda men, 687 civilians
Of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14, 2006 and April 8, 2009, only 10 were able to hit their actual targets, killing 14 wanted al-Qaeda leaders, besides perishing 687 innocent Pakistani civilians. The success percentage of the US predator strikes thus comes to not more than six per cent.
U.S. military concedes Afghan civilian casualties
The U.S. military has conceded that a raid this week by troops under its command in Afghanistan killed a group of civilians who were defending their home, not militants as it had earlier reported.
Obama's New World Order
By Stephen Lendman
What's true for Iceland holds everywhere, including the developed world, the idea being to enrich finance capitalism through state-sponsored debt bondage and neo-feudal impoverishment.
Obama Talks About Chemtrails To Stop Warming
President Barack Obama is considering a radical plan to tackle global warming by firing pollution particles into the stratosphere to deflect some of the sun’s heat.
Banks aren't reselling many foreclosed homes
A vast "shadow inventory" of foreclosed homes that banks are holding off the market could wreak havoc with the already battered real estate sector, industry observers say.
Court Docs Suggest Detainees Tortured Before CIA Received Legal OK
CIA Director Leon Panetta has emerged as one of the chief apologists for the agency’s involvement in the Bush administration’s sadistic interrogations practices, stating that agency officials who participated in the systematic torture of “war on terror” prisoners should not be subject to any investigation, let alone prosecution, because they were following legal advice provided by the Justice Department.
GM Pensions May Be ‘Garbage’ With $16 Billion at Risk
Den Black, a retired General Motors Corp. engineering executive, says he’s worried and angry. The government-supported automaker is going bankrupt, he says, and he’s sure some of his retirement pay will go down with it.
Suicide truck bomb kills 5 U.S. troops
Under a hail of gunfire, a suicide bomber charged a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Friday, detonating a truck laden with explosives and killing five U.S. troops and two Iraqi policemen.
Be Careful What You Wish For
By Peter Schiff
Apart from the obvious financial distress that the current economic crisis has inflicted on most Americans, perhaps one of the more irksome byproducts of the meltdown has been the inescapability of clueless economic blather. It’s bad enough when so-called economists serve up the same Keynesian nonsense that has led us down the current cul-de-sac in the first place. At least those people have some incidental knowledge, however deeply flawed, of basic economic concepts. It’s far worse when political pundits, whose understanding of economics typically comes from Treasury Department talking points, hold forth as if they really know what is going on.
I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version
By now, you may have heard about our acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A., a film that boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. The film has been a huge hit, getting rave reviews from Roger Ebert and others.
Pirates with U.S. hostage vow to fight if attacked
Somali pirates holding an American on a drifting lifeboat vowed on Friday to fight any attack by U.S. naval forces and reportedly recaptured their hostage when he jumped overboard to escape.
Inside the Fed's Trillion-Dollar Decision: Crisis Outweighed Inflation Fears
Worries about a prolonged economic slump and a lack of progress in thawing frozen credit markets persuaded Federal Reserve leaders last month to inject more than a trillion dollars into the economy, according to meeting minutes released yesterday.
How Many Democrats Will Stand Up Against Obama's Bloated Military Budget?
By Jeremy Scahill,
Much of the media attention this week on President Obama’s new military budget has put forward a false narrative wherein Obama is somehow taking his socialist/pacifist sledgehammer to the Pentagon’s war machine and blasting it to smithereens. Republicans have charged that Obama is endangering the country’s security, while the Democratic leadership has hailed it as the dawn of a new era in responsible spending priorities. Part of this narrative portrays Defense Secretary Robert Gates as standing up to the war industry, particularly military contractors.
The reality is that all of this is false.
Banks asked to keep quiet on stress tests
The U.S. Treasury Department is asking banks not to mention the regulatory "stress tests" as part of their first-quarter earnings results, according to a source familiar with government discussions.
Police incompetence and corruption?
Sections of the the media can be very effective at revealing the faults of the police, the security services, and the criminal justice system, particularly in the UK.
Who’s behind ‘peaceful’ Moldovans’ outrage?
A Romanian national involved in organizing riots in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, has been detained, says the country's Prosecutor General’s Office. Further investigations continue into who instigated the protests.
Oath Keepers Orders We Will NOT Obey Full Length Video
We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
Internet Rankings are Massively Gamed
Alexa is the most popular free website ranking service. It has been described as "a Nielson rating for the popularity of the website you are visiting."
Fed says plan now to avert inflation
The United States economy will skid more deeply into recession in coming months, Federal Reserve policy-makers warned on Thursday, but it is time to start planning how to wind down spending to avert an inflationary surge.
Sabotage attacks knock out phone service
Vandals cut fiber-optic cable lines belonging to AT&T at two locations early today, knocking out phones and access to 911 emergency services to thousands of residential customers and businesses in southern Santa Clara County, in Santa Cruz and San Benito counties and along the Peninsula, authorities said.
Anti-US protests held in Baghdad
Tens of thousands of followers of anti-US Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are protesting in Baghdad against the presence of US troops in Iraq.
Gun buy-back program launched in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday kicked off a gun buy-back program urging Angelenos to turn in their guns to police departments in exchange for gift cards.
Angelenos who turn in their guns -- regardless of whether the firearm has been used in a crime -- will receive a gift certificate, Villaraigosa said.
American Sovereignty in Danger
By Bob Bauman
I happen to hold to the old fashioned notion that America's national
sovereignty is the foundation of our freedom as a people and of our individual liberty.
In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show "Devil's Advocate" on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
Murder Trumps Torture Says Bugliosi
By Michael Collins
The legendary Los Angeles County prosecutor and top selling true crime author, Vincent Bugliosi, continues to make the case that he argued in detail in his New York Times best seller, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. His crime, according to the esteemed former prosecutor: deliberately deceiving the United States into an illegal war that resulted in the deaths of 4,200 U.S. soldiers and more than 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians.
The IMF Rules the World
By Michael Hudson
Debtor countries must borrow a trillion from the IMF not to revive their own faltering economies, not to pursue counter-cyclical policies to restore market demand (that is only for creditor nations), but to pass on the IMF `aid` to the poisonous banks that have made the irresponsible toxic
Darkness Renewed: Terror as a Tool of Empire
By Chris Floyd
Here's a purely hypothetical scenario. Let's say you were a dedicated imperial militarist who believed that your country's security, prestige and financial interests could best be served by war and the ever-present threat of war. Let's say you had some really hot and juicy operations going on, endless deadly conflicts that were pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into your war machine and entrenching national policy even more deeply in the militarist philosophy — the machtpolitik – that you believe in.
Global Financial Collapse - Part 1
n Argentine opinion on the Global Financial Crisis, describing the whole Global Financial System as one vast Ponzi Scheme. Like a pyramid, it has four sides and is a predictable model. The four sides are: (1) Artificially control the supply of public State-issued Currency, (2) Artificially impose Banking Money as the primary source of funding in the economy, (3) Promote doing everything by Debt and (4) Erect complex channels that allow privatizing profits when the Model is in expansion mode and socialize losses when the model goes into contraction mode.
Almost half of French approve of locking up bosses
Almost half of French people believe it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs to lock up their bosses, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday.
Staff at French plants run by Sony, 3M and Caterpillar have held managers inside the factories overnight, in three separate incidents, to demand better layoff terms -- a new form of labor action dubbed "bossnapping" by the media.
An Asset Bubble for the History Books
By Bob Chapman
Many of you may recall that there was a tulip mania in Holland in the 1630's that has become synonymous with asset bubbles. Just to give you an idea of how over-the-top this mania became, the price for a single tulip bulb at one point during this mania was in the tens of thousands of dollars in terms of today's prices.
Bolivian President on Hunger Strike
Bolivian President Evo Morales declared Monday he is on a hunger strike with leaders of social organizations as a protest of obstacles in Congress to the approval of a temporary electoral law.
Fusion Center Freak Out: ACLU Uneasy With Big Brother's National Listening Party
While there have been a handful of congressional hearings on fusion centers as well as local efforts to ensure the centers comply with Freedom of Information Act requests, specific instances of abuse have been largely glossed over by the government and ignored by the media.
Obama seeks another $83 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan
The Obama administration will ask Congress for another $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September, Democratic congressional sources said Thursday.
Selling off America's manufacturing might, a factory at a time
Any given week, the guts of a whole factory are auctioned off. Its contents are sold piece by piece and taken away for scrap or antiques or resale to foreign companies. Men with blowtorches and trucks haul off tool-and-die machines, aluminum siding, hoists, drinking fountains, salt and pepper shakers, anything that might be of some value. It is the removal of the country's mechanical heart right before your eyes. It is breathtaking.
