End Of The Cheap ‘Made-In-China’ Era Sends Companies Scrambling For Options
Elaine Kurtenbach Huffington Post SHANGHAI — Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs…
Activism
Easy for Peaceful People to Violate Patriot Act and Face 15 Years in Jail
Joshua Holland Alternet Give some advice to Hamas or al Qaeda about how they can peacefully achieve their objectives — and the Supreme Court might…
IRS starts mopping up Congress’s tax-reporting mess
Neil deMause CNN Money With a new mandate looming that will require business owners to file millions more tax forms, the Internal Revenue Service has…
American Creativity is in Crisis
The Creativity Crisis — For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. Newsweek Back…
Doomsday: How BP Gulf Disaster May Have Triggered “World-Killing” Event
Terrance Aym Helium How to Save a Dying Ocean Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding…
Is the Oil Spill Staged?
EU Times “We are not the enemy here.”—Anderson Cooper, CNN reporter (referring to the media blackout surrounding the oil spill) Let me say up front that,…
Why is Drug Company with 50 Years of Proven Safety Violations Using Taxpayer Money to Make Next Gen Flu Vaccine?
Dr. Mercola One of the more dangerous companies with a recurrent history of life threatening recalls is now in commissioned by government to make a…
Former Top CIA Spy: How US Intelligence Became Big Business
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Few who have seen the dramatic privatization of US intelligence operations from the inside ever speak about the role private contractors…
New BP Data Show 20% of Gulf Spill Responders Exposed to Chemical That Sickened Valdez Workers
Elana Schor The New York Times In an under-the-radar release of new test results for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill workers, BP PLC is…
Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”
Washington’s Blog As I have previously noted, Corexit is toxic, is less effective than other dispersants, and is actually worsening the damage caused by the oil spill. Now,…
Obama to Open Up 1.8 Million Alaskan Acres to Oil Drilling
Huffington Post ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve while…
46 US Warships Plus 7,000 US Marines On Route To Costa Rica?
Scott Oliver WeLoveCostaRica On the 2nd July 2010 the Costa Rica Congress authorized the entry of 46 U.S. warships capable of carrying 200 helicopters and…
BP Ignoring Dispersant Directives With the Coast Guard’s Consent
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones So much for the May 26 directive from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Coast Guard calling for BP to slash dispersant…
EU gives US access to its citizens’ financial data
Robert Verkaik The Independent US anti-terrorism investigators have won the right to scrutinise the private bank details of British and other EU citizens after a…