IMF fears ‘social explosion’ from world jobs crisis
America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk “an explosion of social unrest” unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary…
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Gov’t Employees Say Interference Threatens Public Health
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones In the past months, more than 1,400 Americans have become sick after eating salmonella-tainted eggs, and half a billion eggs have…
Former British PM Tony Blair gets Liberty Medal
Kathy Matheson Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair received the Liberty Medal on Monday for his global human rights work and…
Iraq Posting Massive Surplus Thanks to U.S. Taxpayers
Dan Froomkin Huffington Post Even as the United States has been borrowing trillions to pursue its wars in the Middle East, the government of Iraq…
The backlash begins against the world landgrab
The neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph Last week’s long-delayed report by the World…
10 Reasons Our Shallow Fresh Water Supply is in Deep Trouble
Jeffrey Green Activist Post Fresh clean water is essential to all life forms. It seems that a resource so vital should not be corralled, controlled,…
Thousands held without trial in Iraq: Amnesty
Iraqi detainees in Baquba. (Eros Hoagland for The New York Times) AFP Tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons…
The Deschooling and Unschooling Movement is Growing
Kate Hammer Prevent Disease A small but growing movement known as deschooling, life learning, unschooling, and edu-punk is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots,…
Successful Economic Policies for Whom?
Rep. Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that…
Monetary Freedom, Monetary Magic
Richard C.B. Jonhsson Lew Rockwell What is needed for us to have real monetary freedom? Do we have to repeal legal tender laws? Abolish the…
Nine Years After 9/11, Few See Terrorism as Top U.S. Problem
One percent see it as the top problem today, down from 46% in 2001 (So why are we giving away our rights? — Ed.) Frank…
Collapsing America
Linh Dinh Dissident Voice All governments lie, kill and misuse public funds, but these calculated habits are amplified manifold during wars. We’re in two now,…
Your next MRI could cost you your life
Jonathan Benson Natural News Patients who undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are often given drug injections to enhance the quality of scan images. But…
World Panel Backs Rules to Avert Banking Crisis
Jack Ewing NY Times Top central bankers and bank regulators agreed Sunday on far-reaching new rules for the global banking industry that are designed to…