• Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan

  Agosto, a soldier based at Fort Hood in Texas, is publicly refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He recently wrote on...

   

• US military spending hit $607 billion in 2008

  The global arms madness continues. A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (one of my favorite...

   

• The Rise of Private Armies

  Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the “disintegration of the...

   

• MEP Nick Griffin – An audience with a racist

  Nick Griffin: MEP elect, BNP mouthpiece, convicted Holocaust-denier and would-be deporter of black people invites me into...

   

• Racist rants of elected BNP man, Andrew Brons, revealed

  One of the British National party’s first MEPs’ attempts to play down his past links to the extreme right as...

   

• John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners

  On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney....

   

• FDA Approves Antidepressants for Children, Even After Revelations of Bribery

  The FDA has approved Forest Laboratories’ antidepressant Lexapro (escitalopram) for use in children and adolescents,...

   

• Man arrested and convicted for complaining about government

  Marshall Pappert waged a passionate, perhaps slightly obsessive, campaign of protest letter writing to Bridgeville, Pa. politicians...

   

• The Federal Reserve Would Be Shut Down If It Was Audited

  The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is so out of whack that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional...

   

• The Long Ordeal of Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner

  The long ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, has finally come to an end. Reprieve, the legal...