• Poll: Most want inquiry into anti-terror tactics

  By Jill Lawrence  WASHINGTON — Even as Americans struggle with two wars and an economy in tatters, a USA TODAY/Gallup...

   

• Fisk: Afghanistan in Crisis

  By Robert Fisk | The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands—all but a...

   

• Manufactured Famine

  By George Monbiot | In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts...

   

• Guantánamo Has Backfired Dreadfully

  By George Monbiot | When we learned last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq,...

   

• Bush Administration Policies Making Work Less Safe

  By Leo W. Gerard | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about...

   

• THE DEBATE: UK Passports – Interview or Interrogation?

  

  Apr 22, 2008 9:14

  RINF |    Can the Home Office justify raising passport costs to over £70 while spending nearly £100 million on...

   

• The most potent weapon wielded by Murdoch and China

  By George Monbiot | If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover’s book, Rupert’s...

   

• The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn

  Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more...

   

• Nutrition Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About

  Rich Stacel | Newstarget Today we know more about vitamins, minerals and nutrition in general then ever before, but at the...

   

• The Politics Of Absolute Power

  The following commentary was written by Philip S. Golub and appears in the Le Monde diplomatique English-language edition...

   

• Who Watches the CIA Watchers?

  Katrina vanden Heuvel In the cloak and dagger, smoke and hall of mirrors that is the CIA, we have more evidence that it’s...

   

• Why is Rudy Giuliani basing his campaign on 911?

  By Geezer Power Mayor Giuliani was warned that the WTC tower was going to collapse. Rudy Giuliani is interviewed by ABC...

   

• A scary assault on civil liberties

  By Lance Dickie As historians tally the incompetence, profligacy and lawless opacity of the Bush administration, a shorthand...

   

• Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning

  These gutless papers explain why more people are Googling than turning pages I despise the internet. It’s irresponsible...

   

• New World Order Evolving

  By Ivan Simic RINF Alternative News The term “*New World Order*” (*Novus Ordo Mundi*) has been used to refer...

   

• RINF Report: Leeds Truth Festival 2007

  Michael Meaney Last weekend (11-13 May 2007), a series of very unusual talks and events took place in the Northern...

   

• Look who’s talking: Britain’s ‘Big Brother’

  Britain is turning to talking cameras to curb anti-social behavior. But more police and better street lighting may do more...