Schwarzenegger Mobilizes National Guard to the Border
Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday mobilized members of the California National Guard as part of a federal effort to deter…
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BEWARE: Banks Gearing Up for New Fees to Combat Lost Revenues
Stevenson Jacobs Huffington Post NEW YORK — Big banks facing big drops in revenue are looking to Main Street to make up the difference. Checking…
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan: We’re Not Winning, It’s Not Worth It
Richard Haass Newsweek GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that…
Oliver Stone’s New Project: The Secret History of America
Oliver Stone and the politics of film-making There’s no let-up for Hollywod’s most controversial director – the sequel to Wall Street, a documentary about Hugo…
Orwell’s Nightmare–Big Brother is Here
Anthony G. Martin Examiner In George Orwell’s chilling novel, 1984, the author depicts a future society in which citizens are controlled by an all-seeing, all-knowing…
The Real Unemployment Rate May Be Higher Than 22%
Pallavi Gogoi Daily Finance Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of…
GlaxoSmithKline Cheers $2.3 Billion Fine for Causing 800 Heart Attacks Per Month
Sarah Cain The Health Wyze Report GlaxoSmithKline has been under fire recently because its diabetes drug, Avandia, causes heart attacks. That’s just another minor complication that patients…
BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community
Ben Raines Press-Register For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities around the…
Tobacco giant Philip Morris sold cigarettes made using child labour
Shaun Walker The Independent Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been forced to admit that child workers as young as 10 have been subjected to long…
Carbon trading used as money-laundering front: experts
AFP The experts who attended a meeting of the Asia Pacific Money Laundering Group (APG) said crime syndicates are resorting to new methods to hide their illegal…
BP dispersant likened to ‘Agent Orange’
PressTV BP’s use of chemicals to disperse the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has become a source of concern for the US, with lawmakers…
Man tries to pay tax with 200,000 pennies
QMI Agency RIPON, Que. – A Quebec man, fed up with his skyrocketing property taxes, carted more than 200,000 pennies down to City Hall to…
Mercola: Beware of Cholesteral Drugs
US Responsible for Terror Bombing in Iran says Lawmaker
Press TV An Iranian lawmaker slams the recent bombings in the country’s southeast as a plot by Western military forces in the Middle East to…