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…
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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…
The Marijuana Conspiracy: The reason hemp is illegal
Hemp/Wikimedia Commons image Doug Yurchey The Dot Connector They say marijuana is dangerous. Pot is not harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does…
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host with 73,000 Blogs
Enigmax Torrent Freak After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this…
British Army ‘involved in torture mission with US troops’
Robert Verkaik The Independent Claims that British soldiers used water torture on a badly beaten Iraqi man before unlawfully handing him over to US interrogators…
Will Thousands Of Police Layoffs Unleash Chaos And Anarchy Across America?
The Economic Collapse Blog Thousands of police officers have been laid off all across America since the current economic crisis began. Thousands more are getting…
China reduces US Treasury debt holdings in May
Martin Crutsinger Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China reduced its holdings of U.S. Treasury debt in May as total foreign holdings of government debt posted…
Army suicides hit record number in June
Liz Goodwin Yahoo News Thirty-two soldiers took their own lives last month, the most Army suicides in a single month since the Vietnam era. Eleven…
Judge rejects Schwarzenegger minimum wage request
Judy Lin Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A judge on Friday declined to force the state controller to comply with an order by Gov. Arnold…
Five Questions Monsanto Needs to Answer about its Seed Donation to Haiti
Timi Gerson Civil Eats Monsanto has donated $4 million in seeds to Haiti, sending 60 tons of conventional hybrid corn and vegetable seed, followed by…