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More People are Catching on to Corporate Media Lies
By Michael Cambray | It seems that most people are finally awakening to the fact that it is not a good idea to blindly accept the manipulating lies with which we are daily brainwashed,
Read More »Bisphenol A Chemical in Plastic Bottles Harms Children, Feds Conclude
By David Gutierrez | For the first time, a branch of the U.S. government has admitted that the common industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) may pose a health risk. BPA is a crucial ingredient in
Read More »US out of Iraq by … “2011″
By PATRICK COCKBURN | The United States is moving towards ending its military control of Iraq by agreeing to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June next year and from the
Read More »‘MI6 & Weapons of Mass Destruction’
By Larry O’Hara | Fascinating fall-out recently following the publication of Ron Suskind’s new book ‘The Way of the World’ (Simon & Schuster 2008) in which he argues two things of interest. Firstly, the
Read More »RIPA Surveillance Law Misused On Merseyside
By Andrew Brown | HUNDREDS of people across Merseyside have been under surveillance by local authorities using powers under so-called “terror laws”, according to details released under the Freedom of Information Act. An investigation has
Read More »Britain: Security Service “facilitated” torture of Guantánamo detainee
By Richard Tyler | A London court has ruled that the British government must disclose information that could support the claim that torture was used to extract confessions from Binyam Mohamed, a former British
Read More »Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops
By Allan Woods | OTTAWA–Canadian soldiers could get training from a U.S. company closely linked to Blackwater USA, a private security firm implicated in the killings of hundreds of Iraqi civilians, if the Department
Read More »Pledge: Refuse To Comply With ID Scheme
From the Blog of Kev: I will refuse to comply with any compulsary ID card scheme. but only if 1,000 other UK people will do the same. Deadline to pledge 31st December 2008, pledge
Read More »Why can’t energy firms pick up the bill?
Demands grow for windfall tax as fuel companies rake in record profits Socialist Worker | “British economy grinds to a halt” cried the headlines last weekend. Charles Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank
Read More »Running for War President at Any Cost
By Robert Scheer | Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran’s nuclear program is unchecked and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid
Read More »Joe Biden and the political establishment’s overriding goal
By Glenn Greenwald | Writing in a New York Times blog yesterday, Clinton pollster Mark Penn hails the selection of Joe Biden as “a smart and successful choice” and says this: From Al Gore on,
Read More »The Future of Death at the Pentagon
The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department Tomgram | What a difference four and a half years makes. When I first penned “The Wild Weapons of DARPA,” in March 2004, I was a new TomDispatch writer; the war
Read More »Manufactured Famine
By George Monbiot | In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought,
Read More »Could Iris Scans Stop a New Iraq Insurgency?
By Noah Shachtman | Iraq’s government and Sunni militias appear to be headed for a showdown. One of the things that just might keep a full-blown insurgency from erupting again, a leading expert in
Read More »U.S. Soldiers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say
By PAUL VON ZIELBAUER | In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to
Read More »Fascism Anyone?
Fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. By Laurence W. Britt | The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not
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