Monthly Archives: September 2008 »
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 lymphocytic leukemia in 1991, a malignant cancer of the bone marrow and blood.
Read More »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 Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo. To buy 88,052, 394′ custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around
Read More »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 among the biggest banks and financial firms to grab the lion’s share of
Read More »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 away from experiencing a global meltdown — “Financial Armageddon” — which was
Read More »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 Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.”
Read More »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 bad mortgage investments from U.S. financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government
Read More »When Corporations Rule the World
PCDF | Those of us who seek to intervene in policy debates in favor of economic justice and environmentally sustainability are regularly assured by the world’s power brokers that they are fully committed to these goals
Read More »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 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the ‘progression of lies’ from the
Read More »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 file sharing. Businesses can face serious consequences from illegal file sharing which takes place
Read More »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 prosecute the managers of an oil- and gas-royalty program that’s been tainted by allegations of illicit sex,
Read More »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 she would prosecute President Bush for murder. Dennett, an attorney from Cambridge challenging incumbent Democrat William
Read More »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, the Liberal Democrats have demanded. Delegates at the party’s Bournemouth conference overwhelmingly backed a
Read More »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 low, causing people to make mistakes. That’s the basic source. But then on top of
Read More »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 by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing
Read More »Sources: Charges against Blackwater guards debated
Defense attorneys for Blackwater Worldwide employees are trying to head off Justice Department charges against the company’s bodyguards who were involved in the deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians exactly one year ago. In
Read More »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 as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him “The
Read More »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 libel suit against the Guardian. But it seems amazing that
Read More »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 soldier in Helmand last year. They all neglected to remind their readers, however, how
Read More »Bush’s War Widens Dangerously
By Tariq Ali | The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and
Read More »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 Barton Gellman’s new book on the Cheney Vice Presidency, and it provides still more details on the
Read More »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 Man Who Vetted Palin,” CounterPunch, September 8, 2008.) The American people’s inability
Read More »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 such as Darfur and Burma, where they are likely to be
Read More »Taxis Get CCTV Cameras
TAXI drivers have welcomed proposals to improve passenger and driver safety, including tougher driver testing and compulsory installation of CCTV. Changes to the licensing of cabs operating in Gravesham were recommended for approval at
Read More »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 scheme. The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has further whittled
Read More »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 on Iraq was the one about the now-infamous drones of death. Later, it became sufficiently clear that this
Read More »
