U.S. Geithner Warns Republicans Against Politicizing the Fed
Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said the Obama administration would oppose any effort to strip the Federal Reserve of its mandate to pursue…
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Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
Perry Chiaramonte, Jamie Schram, and Dan Mangan The New York Post Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up! A squad of cops…
Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
Perry Chiaramonte, Jamie Schram, and Dan Mangan The New York Post Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up! A squad of cops…
Unemployment Extension Defeated In House
image source Arthur Delaney Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a measure that would have reauthorized extended unemployment insurance…
American Idle
Live every day as if it were your last . . . and then some day you’ll be right. ~H.H. “Breaker” Morant~ Keith Johnson — Revolt of the Plebs…
Is the USDA Governing Our Taste Buds?
David Katz, M.D. Huffington Post The New York Times has done a fine job pointing out the fishy thing about cheese: The same federal authorities…
10 Rules for Dealing with Police (VIDEO)
Flex Your Rights Do you know what your rights are if you’re stopped by police? Most people don’t, and the consequences can be severe. From…
NYPD Commences Use Of Iris Scans Of Suspects
Editor’s Note: This is yet another application that started with military use and is now being used on Americans. First at checkpoints in Iraq, now…
Obama’s Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us
Anthony Freda Illustration Michael Hudson CounterPunch Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his bipartisan willingness to renew the tax cuts for the super-rich enacted…
Military spending, collapse of US empire (VIDEO)
‘Fusion centers’ gather terrorism intelligence – and much more
Designed to share data and head off attacks, the 72 offices in the U.S. are starting to worry civil libertarians. image / Public Intelligence Ken…
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Eric Cantor’s Pledge of Allegiance
Glenn Greenwald Salon Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the same day when the…
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
Eric Lichtblau NY Times WASHINGTON — A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven”…