• Remembering Edward Said Five Years On

  By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Born in West Jerusalem in 1935. Exiled in December 1947. Said was diagnosed with chronic...

   

• THE LIST: WHAT A TRILLION DOLLARS WILL BUY

  Andrew Davis, Libertarian Party One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money: To buy everybody living in Los...

   

• Banks race to profit from US bailout

  By Barry Grey | The announcement of a virtually open-ended government bailout of Wall Street has set off a frenzied competition...

   

• Did The World Narrowly Avoid “Financial Armageddon” Last Week?

  By Mike Adams | According to insider traders speaking to the New York Post, the global financial system was only 500 trades...

   

• 200 Years of Standing Up to U.S. War Lies

  By David Swanson | Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr., have edited a new collection of writings called “We Who...

   

• Treasury Seeks Authority to Buy $700 Billion Assets

  By Alison Fitzgerald and John Brinsley | The Bush administration asked Congress for unchecked power to buy $700 billion in...

   

• When Corporations Rule the World

  PCDF | Those of us who seek to intervene in policy debates in favor of economic justice and environmentally sustainability...

   

• The lies of Hiroshima are the lies of today

  By John Pilger | In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August...

   

• Lancaster University develop product to prevent illegal file sharing in the office

  A Lancaster University spin out company based in InfoLab21 has developed a tool to help businesses clamp down on illegal...

   

• Why weren’t managers charged in oil-sex scandal?

  By Marisa Taylor | The Interior Department’s watchdog criticized the Justice Department on Thursday for declining to...

   

• AG candidate backs prosecution of President Bush for murder

  Rutland Herald | Charlotte Dennett, the Progressive Party candidate for Vermont attorney general, said Thursday that if elected...

   

• DNA database details of children ‘should be deleted’

  By Mark Hookham | Lancashire Police should delete the DNA records of around 4,000 youngsters held on a computer database,...

   

• Ron Paul on the Financial Crisis

  “Our problems start with the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a monopoly and it controls interest rates artificially...

   

• The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

  Via Bruce Schneier | Definitely strange bedfellows: A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed...

   

• Sources: Charges against Blackwater guards debated

  Defense attorneys for Blackwater Worldwide employees are trying to head off Justice Department charges against the company’s...

   

• Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’

  By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well...

   

• The price of free speech

  By George Monbiot | So we saw him off. Last week, in a victory for both medicine and free speech, Matthias Rath dropped his...

   

• How the press swallows MoD propaganda

  Media Workers Against the War | Last month the press reported how friendly fire in a bungled assault killed a British...

   

• Bush’s War Widens Dangerously

  By Tariq Ali | The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan...

   

• What illegal “things” was the government doing in 2001-2004?

  Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com | For the second consecutive day, The Washington Post has published an excerpt from reporter...

   

• The Gang’s All Here – Bush, McCain and the Old Iran-Contra Team

  By PAM MARTENS | The vetting of Sarah Palin for the McCain campaign by an Iran-Contra alumnus brought an epiphany. (See “The...

   

• Irish politicians back calls for universal arms trade treaty

  Politicians from all the main parties have given their support to a global campaign to ban the sale of arms to conflict zones...

   

• Taxis Get CCTV Cameras

  TAXI drivers have welcomed proposals to improve passenger and driver safety, including tougher driver testing and compulsory...

   

• Government whittles down ID scheme suppliers

  By Nick Heath | The government has taken another step towards tying up which companies will be in charge of the UK ID cards...

   

• So, the President May Kill Anybody He Pleases, Right?

  Lew Rockwell | Among the many cock-and-bull stories set afoot by the Bush administration during the lead-up to its attack...