Obama Administration Will Not Seek Indefinite Detention Legislation
News reports today indicate that the Obama administration will not seek legislation or issue an executive order to institute a system of indefinite detention without charge or trial. According to the reports, the administration backed away from seeking… more »
The Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This a President Was Killed
I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who… more »
13 Reasons for Major Gold Breakout
The move to kiss $1000 gold was the foreplay, the first dance, the initial step to capture global attention and to preview the next much bigger move. Some important less visible factors are at work to push the gold price up, somewhat hidden from view.… more »
Bizarre - Mystery Man Claims Baxter Flu Vax Is A BioWeapon
Joseph Moshe (Moshe is the man's middle name) is a bio-scientist. He works (worked?) for a unit within Mossad. He is an Israeli citizen. The Secret Service was not the agency involved in the surveillance of Moshe at his home in California. This was done… more »
A Method to Their Madness
Spare a thought, and maybe even a dime, for Kenneth Gladney. In August he and other members of the right-wing St. Louis Tea Party arrived at a town-hall meeting organized by Missouri Democrat Russ Carnahan to lobby against universal healthcare. In the… more »
Americans Grow Cannabis to Beat the Recession
Some people cancel holidays abroad, others stage yard sales or start shopping at low-cost supermarkets. To that list must now be added a new way to get through economic hard times: grow cannabis. So far this year, police in parts of the country where… more »
Former Gitmo Guard Tells All
Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story.… more »
Thatcher in secret meeting with Gorby "The reunification of Germany is not in the interests of Britain and Western Europe."..."We do not want a united Germany."
A conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher(September 23 1989 : transcript) Thatcher: I wanted to raise some questions regarding the situation in the countries of Eastern Europe. I was deeply impressed by the courage… more »
Australia to probe E Timor deaths
[The five were Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Tony Stewart] Australian police have launched a war crimes investigation into the deaths in East Timor in 1975 of the "Balibo Five" group of journalists. In 2007, an… more »
Defending historical truth
Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR. The publication of the English-language edition of Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR by the late Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin is a… more »
The war on drugs is immoral idiocy. We need the courage of Argentina
While Latin American countries decriminalise narcotics, Britain persists in prohibition that causes vast human suffering. Simon Jenkins guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 September 2009 20.30 BST Article historyI guess it had to happen this way. The greatest… more »
Executives at Financial Firms Who Received Bailout Funds Get Big Salaries, Report Says
Chief executives of the top 20 financial firms that received taxpayer bailout funds averaged $13.78 million in personal compensation last year, according to a report released today. The annual "Executive Excess" study, a project of the Institute for… more »
Protecting Trees, Protecting Our Climate - Ten Reasons to Invest in Reducing Tropical Deforestation
We already know we are putting too much heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air when we burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, fuel our cars, and heat our homes—but by cutting down and burning trees, we are also releasing an astounding… more »
Government Withholds Key Torture Documents In ACLU Lawsuit - CIA Defends Interrogations Tactics And Secrecy
The government has said it will continue to withhold dozens of documents related to the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody overseas. The Justice Department was facing an August 31 deadline to release the documents, including a presidential directive… more »
How Hitler's deputy was tipped to ride on the Loch Ness Monster
Hitler's deputy led government officials and journalists on a wild goose chase for years after his reported death, MI5 files released today showed. Martin Bormann was spotted everywhere from Switzerland to Bolivia, to the exasperation of the British… more »
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