Gates blames past lack of troops for Taliban edge
Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban's revival on a past failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said U.S. forces would not withdraw whatever the result of President Barack Obama's strategy review.

Europe’s plot to take over the world
Jean Monnet, the founding father of the EU, believed that European unity was “not an end in itself, but only a stage on the way to the organised world of tomorrow”.

UK Military 'How to Stop Leaks' Document Is Leaked
A Ministry of Defence document giving advice on how to stop documents leaking onto the internet has been leaked onto the internet.

Probing the Arctic Sea conspiracies
What really happened when the Arctic Sea cargo ship went missing amid allegations of hijacking and weapons smuggling? The BBC's Sarah Rainsford went to Kaliningrad to find out.

Turkish police fire tear gas on IMF protesters
Turkish police fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse hundreds of people protesting against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank during their annual meetings in Istanbul on Tuesday.

MI5 warned that bin Laden was planning attacks on morning of 9/11
MI5 warned the government that Osama bin Laden was planning an attack in the weeks leading up to September 11, including the morning itself, a new history of the Security Service discloses.

Top Rwandan 1994 Genocide Suspect Seized
One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested in Uganda, according to a senior police source.

ElBaradei says nuclear Israel number one threat to Mideast: report
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday that "Israel is number one threat to Middle East" with its nuclear arms, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Pakistan Taliban head cracks jokes, vows vengeance
Flanked by heavily armed fighters, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban sat on a blue blanket, amiable and relaxed as he cracked jokes and mixed in threats of vengeance for deadly US airstrikes.

'Rumors that Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots false'
According to the Guardian, Iranian president's previous surname not common among Persian Jews, reason it was changed has to do with class struggle in Iran

New Afghan vote rules may ensure Karzai victory
Afghan election authorities began a recount on Monday in a disputed presidential election, but new rules issued by a U.N.-backed watchdog appear to make it unlikely that President Hamid Karzai's preliminary win can be overturned.

Nations vow well-funded World Bank but no deal yet
Finance and development ministers from around the globe on Monday pledged to ensure the World Bank had enough money to fight poverty, climate change and other challenges facing developing countries.

US trying to downplay Iran's Geneva achievements
On the same day the IAEA chief once again assured that no evidence has been found to prove Iran is after nuclear arms, the US ambassador to the UN warns of 'a wide range of sanctions' against Tehran.

Senate passes $636 billion defense spending bill
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved $636 billion to fund military operations for the fiscal year that started on October 1, $3.9 billion less than requested by the Obama administration.

Pelosi calls for a value added tax
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continued her regularly scheduled display of dishonesty during a recent discussion of the value-added tax

Obama's 'Safe Schools Czar' Criticizes Schools For Promoting Heterosexuality
"Kids are being aggressively recruited to become heterosexual in this country."

Cindy Sheehan Moving to Washington
She’s back and this time, she’s here to stay.

New Footage of the 9/11 WTC Attack
New Footage above of the moment the second plane crashed into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001,has been released.

“Government explanations of 9/11 make no sense”
American actor and 9/11 activist Daniel Sunjata says that he supports an independent 9/11 investigation because there are too many disturbing questions that remain unanswered.

APF Plan To Take Ocer Detention Facility Put On Hold
Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations that the company's lead figure has a criminal history.

FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case
An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last week with radio journalist Peter B. Collins.

APF official seeking to run Hardin jail ordered to appear in California court
The president of the Two Rivers Authority board said today that he has too many questions to even think of signing a contract with American Police Force to take over Hardin's empty jail.

GOP senators: US, not Israel, should attack Iran ‘if necessary’
Two senior Republican senators say the United States, and not Israel, should attack Iran if military action becomes "necessary."

Hospitals Shun H1N1 FluMist Vaccine, Wait For Injections
Concern That Doctors, Nurses Could Spread 'Live' Virus

NASA to Bomb the Moon to Search for Water
NASA's going for full impact Friday, firing a bomb-laden missile at the moon in a dramatic search for water.

IBM Builds 'Bar Code Reader' for DNA
magine a world where medicine is guaranteed not to cause adverse reactions because it's designed for an individual's DNA.

Rules For Blogs: FTC Sets Guidelines For Product Reviews, Testimonials
The wild, wild Web, where anything goes, could become less wild this year if federal regulators have their way.

Dow Will Fall to 6,300 by Year End: Portfolio Manager
With the prospect of higher unemployment hanging over the markets, some experts expect a correction.

Why privilege derivatives?
Goldman Sachs has done it again, deftly navigating markets to maximize its own returns and leave others nursing losses.

Excerpt From Too Big to Fail
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with dozens of the participants, many of whom agreed to be interviewed on the condition that they not be identified as sources.

Private Equity Firms Looting America
For most of the 133 years since its founding in a small city in Wisconsin, the Simmons Bedding Company enjoyed an illustrious history.

Gold Jumps to Record as Inflation Outlook Fuels Investor Demand
Gold rose to a record on speculation that currencies will depreciate, spurring inflation and boosting the appeal of the precious metal for investors seeking to preserve their wealth

Dollar Falls After Australia Unexpectedly Raises Interest Rates
The dollar declined to its weakest level in almost two weeks versus the euro after Australia’s central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates on signs of economic strength, spurring demand for higher-yielding assets.

Recession has moms redefining Christmas gift lists
Kids yearning for iPods and game consoles this holiday season may be out of luck - they may get new clothes instead.

Can China Lead a Recovery?
Chen Zizheng wheeled his shopping cart down one of the aisles at the Carrefour store near his house and paused in front of the bottles of Remy Martin, Johnnie Walker and Hennessy, each selling for an amount about equal to the annual salary he earned when he was a young government employee.

There's no such thing as too big to fail in a free market
The collapse of a financial institution is not necessarily a disaster. If free markets are to thrive, we must not allow giant, state-supported banks to believe that they are indestructible.

The Largest U.S. Banks Have Repeatedly Gone Bankrupt Due to Wild Speculation. The Fed Blessed the Speculation then Helped Cover Up the Bankruptcies
The Fed playbook obviously includes pretending banks are solvent when they are not

Claim: Arabs Plot to Drop the Dollar
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

Oil states say no talks on replacing dollar
Big oil producing nations denied a British newspaper report on Tuesday that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil.

Stock Market Crash /Collapse Dead Ahead Say Faber, Rogers, Dent and Celente
After a massive upswing in US stocks over the last six months, the recent rally may finally be coming to an end.

U.S. Financial System Systemic Failure Approaches
The Zero Interest Rate Policy is worn as a badge of shame to reflect central bank failure. It rewards savings not at all. It encourages the same speculation that produced bubbles to kill the banks and households.

A Bull in a Silver Shop
By The Mogambo Guru
Investment demand for silver this year is running at a full 25% of world mine production and over 20% of total production (including recycling).

Media Bias Tea Party: A Fox News Affair
My agenda is to expose the hypocrisy and outright idiocy of the latest Tea Party protest being lead by Fox News minions.

Iran and Nuclear Latency
By Juan Cole
When you tool around the blogosphere and the news sites, the discourse about Iran's nuclear program is maddeningly contradictory. But I think a single hypothesis can account for all the known facts.

More Iran Hysteria from the NY Times
The Times tells us that Iran at Geneva agreed “to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium” to Russia for reprocessing into fuel rods for a medical research facility. Twice more in the story it uses the phrase “declared stockpile” — unmistakably signaling the reader that he or she ought to believe that Iran, of course, has other stocks of enriched uranium that are undeclared.

Bombs and Bribes
By Ron Paul
What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on US soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping?

Marc Faber - U S Dollars Will Be Worthless (Video)

Ron Paul on Fox News – “We MUST go back to the gold standard” (Video)

How the Feds Imprison the Innocent: New Book Confirms Tyranny of Good Intentions Thesis
By Paul Craig Roberts
Silverglate shows that many of the plea bargains create precedents that prosecutors can exploit to trap more innocent victims.

The Economic Recovery is an Illusion
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
The economic tumor has been identified; the question is: do we accept this and try to address it, or do we pretend that the cough prescription will cure it?

Looking Beyond Terrorism
By Philip Giraldi
If President Obama really believes what he says, it is past time for him to accept that Afghanistan is a mess but unlikely to become a terrorist haven. Which means "mission accomplished" and it's time to leave.

Americans manufacture another nuclear crisis
By Eric Margolis
Welcome to Iraq deja vu, and another phony crisis.

New threat to travellers from al-Qaeda 'keister bomb'
Civil liberties groups have objected to the existing body scan machines, calling them virtual strip searches. They are unlikely to be happy about even more intrusive examination

Random breathalyzer tests considered for Canada
The federal justice minister is considering a new law that would allow police to conduct random breathalyzer tests on drivers, regardless of whether they suspect motorists have been drinking.

Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'
A new internet game is about to be launched which allows 'super snooper' players to plug into the nation's CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes.

Global Warming: The New Word for Mandates and Population Control
It is exceptionally difficult to deny people what they want and enjoy unless force and threats are used to scare them into cooperation and compliance.