US unable to document any payments for Abu Ghraib
US cannot document any payment to detainees for abuse at Abu Ghraib. Associated Press Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu…
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Obama argues his assassination program is a “state secret”
Glenn Greenwald Salon At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal…
Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer’s memoir
‘Operation Dark Heart’ describes Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer’s time in Afghanistan leading a black-ops team. Chris Lawrence and Padma Rama CNN The Department of Defense…
Credit Unions Bailed Out
Mark Maremont and Victoria McGrane The Wall Street Journal Two years after the peak of the financial crisis, the federal government swooped in to stabilize…
Bank of America Debt Collectors Called Borrowers Vulgar Names to Get them to Pick up the Phone
Henry Blodget Business Insider Bank of America has been busted using some seriously outrageous tactics to try to collect debts so small they’re barely worth…
Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner
Global resistance has halted the biotech giants, reports Environment Editor Michael McCarthy from the IoS co-sponsored Sustainable Planet Forum AFP/Getty Image The Independent The tide…
United Nations to appoint space ambassador to act as first contact for aliens visiting Earth
Daily Mail If aliens ever land on Earth there will no longer be any confusion over who will greet them with the news the United…
A Mood of Austerity and Anxiety in Europe
Liz Alderman NY Times Anastassios Haros never used to be angry or afraid. These days, that’s almost all he feels after Greece became the epicenter…
A Dangerous Divide in the Secret Committee to Save the Euro
Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle and Brian Blackstone Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS—Two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008, a small group of…
Jewish peace activists set sail for Gaza from Cyprus
Menelaos Hadjicostis Associated Press FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus — A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza,…
‘Dramatically Poisonous’ Economy Heading to ‘Catastrophic’ Collapse, Says Acclaimed Economist
The economy is to serve the people, not the people to serve the economy — Manfred Max-Neef Activist Post Acclaimed economist Manfred Max-Neef, author of…
Feds Target Americans As Terrorists In Effort To Break The Back of Big Government Resistance
Government uses its own network of Muslim patsy handlers to sick the anti-terror apparatus on peaceful Americans Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet The feds are…
The New World Order of Global Governance, It’s Not Just For Conspiracy Theorists Anymore
Your Daddy’s Politics The US Government and its benevolent dictator Obama have firm plans to change the way we in America have lived for over…
‘Troubled Waters’ overcomes censor troubles; more must-see Ag films
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post After controversy erupted when the University of Minnesota yanked the opening of Larkin McPhee’s new film, Troubled Waters: A Mississippi…