“They’re Wasted”
The Price of Pushing Our Troops Too Far
Sen. Bernie Sanders Puts Hold on Bernanke Nomination
Bernanke has failed at all four core responsibilities of the Federal Reserve, It’s time for him to go
War Fraud Whistleblowers Under Wraps
Why war costs US taxpayers $1million per soldier per year
Lobbyists pushed off federal advisory panels
The administration is removing deep-seated special interests out of the business of running the government
Cut Wall Street Out!
How States Can Finance Their Own Economic Recovery
Ellsberg: Obama Fears Military Revolt
Obama will go against his own instincts as to what’s best for the country
Secret Bailouts for Giant Failing Banks of the Future?
Authority could be granted to the Fed to act apart from Congress to bail out firms with unlimited amounts of US funds
On Nuke Disarmament, It's Still "You First"
Iran is challenging the double standards
Too Big to Fail?
Why All the President’s Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
Health, War, Hypocrisy & Taxes
Money to save lives? NO! Money to kill? YES!
U.S. losing ground on preventable deaths
Spends vastly more per capita than comparable countries but ranks near the bottom
Revealed: millions spent by lobby firms fighting Obama health reforms
Six lobbyists for every member of Congress as healthcare industry heaps cash on politicians to water down legislation
The G20 fantasy
Making the G20 into a permanent fixture doesn’t tip the balance of global economic power away from the US
Rethinking Our Terrorist Fears
Al Qaeda is losing its moral argument about the killing of innocent civilians
Weapons of Mass Democracy
Nonviolent strategies can be more powerful than guns
UN Gaza report accuses Israel and Hamas of war crimes
Inquiry into Gaza conflict singles out Israeli policy towards Palestinians for most serious condemnation
Swine flu won't be as dangerous as we thought, official says
health experts admitted the virus is less lethal then they feared
Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy
Van Jones linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks
A Crisis That Doesn't Settle the Problems It's Created
1929 has been avoided, but the poison at the source of this crisis continues to work its effects
Beware Authoritative "Inside Washington" Sources Who Say The Public Option Is Dead
In any other place on the planet it would be called rumor, gossip, or drivel. In our nation’s capital it’s called “inside information.”
Utilizing Public Airwaves, Media Mogul Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers
Murdoch is using common property of the United States to turn out mobs at town hall events to intimidate members of Congress and spread disinformation about the health care bills
America the delusional
The tenor of discourse is mutating into irrational hysteria
Health care reform dead? Think again
Congress will pass it; the real issue is the shape it will take
Cocaine traces found on 90% of greenbacks
20 per cent jump over a similar study conducted two years earlier
Swine flu vaccine link to killer nerve disease
Leaked letter reveals concern of UK neurologists over 25 deaths in America
No cash for medical bills? Bartering pays
Providers offer patients option of paying for medical and dental care without exchange of cash.
Obama says insurance companies holding U.S. hostage
they deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford
Lack of North American Leadership
Leaders spoke in generalities, avoided conflict and controversy, and repeated formulaic proposals of a discredited past
‘Death Panel’ Palin dangerously irresponsible
Sarah the Quitter incites mob violence and national disunity by ‘making stuff up’
The media: love, fear, rage, jealousy … but light on reality
The mainstream media can’t be trusted to tell the truth
Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls
Some Republicans controlled by Insurance industry are willing to disrupt the health care debate if they can’t win it
The Big Thirst
people don’t realize how dire the situation is
Un-”threat”-ing Iran
US must recognize the legitimacy of Iran’s integral role in Iraq
Why Shouldn’t We Be Bitter?
what Obama actually said
Obama would ask his AG to “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House
nobody is above the law
A world of hunger
A new Cold War is taking shape, around energy and food
Food price rises threaten global security – UN
many more people will suffer and starve
Forty Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced
Back then, elite media denounced King’s critical comments; today they simply silence them
Cyber vigilantes foil gadget thief
internet users solved robbery and seized stolen goods as police sat stumped
Financial Meltdown: Time for a Holiday From Progressive Politics?
Wall Street got themselves in a huge mess through their own greed and stupidity
German ministers try to ban Scientology
Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles
121 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have committed a killing in US
Under the cloud of war
An impressive list of the achievements of the Iraq war
No peace in Israel-Palestine
Israel working to make a viable Palestinian state impossible
Iran Stopped Nuke Program In 2003
unforeseen development undercuts Bush’s rhetoric regarding Iran as a threat
Afghanistan ‘falling into hands of Taliban’
the question is not if the Taliban will return to Kabul, but when
In U.S., more kids get life terms
Israel runs a vastly distant second, but no other countries do it
US prison system ‘costly failure’
little impact on crime but great cost to the taxpayer
Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans
Twice the rate of other Americans
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen
no need to pray, just pay
Obama Envisions New Iran Approach
if elected president would engage in aggressive personal diplomacy
Overseas visitors give America a miss, costing it $100bn
Travellers feel US entry experience is among the world’s worst
FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA
staff played reporters for what on TV looked just like the real thing
Endgame for Iraqi Oil?
The Sovereignty Showdown in Iraq
The Secret History of the Impending War With Iran That the White House Doesn’t Want You to Know
White House edits CDC climate testimony
removing specific scientific references to potential health risks
Don’t mention the ‘N’ word
Australia signs nuclear agreement without telling Australians
Greenspan’s shock: oil behind Iraq invasion
everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil
9/11 – the big cover-up?
Commission Chair admits official evidence was ‘far from the truth’
Greenspan attacks Bush on economy
Republicans in Congress “swapped principle for power” and “ended up with neither”
Another bitter crop of strange fruit
Race relations in the US deep south under spotlight again
Lindy Chamberlain plea on McCanns
“The public want answers, and if they haven’t got them, they are going to invent them,”
UN rights mission says Israel broke law in Lebanon
guilty of “excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force”
Need Iraq suffer more if we pull out?
78 percent of Iraqis say the US presence “is doing more harm than good”
History Will Not Absolve Us
Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial
Larry Craig Pervert Scandal Is Tip Of The Iceberg
Video footage included
Israeli Control of the Mass Media & the 9-11 Cover-Up (Part 1)
Where is the outrage?
Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran
Out of the frying pan…
Gen Sir Mike Jackson attacks US over Iraq
approach taken by Donald Rumsfeld was “intellectually bankrupt”
Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet
New York Times editorial
Sex education fails to raise teen abstinence (US)
US taxpayers paid over 1 billion for programs that have no impact
Update – Prepackaged news
Bush govt spends big to control your news
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Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit
It's liberty at stake in a warming world
Threats to US liberty are now tied more than ever before to the actions of all nations
To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates
Changing diet can be as effective in reducing emissions as changing the car one drives
Global hunger worsening, warns UN
More than one billion people – a sixth of the world’s population – are undernourished
Senators Unveil New Climate Change Bill
Transition to cleaner energy would reduce billions of dollars spent on oil, some of which supports terrorists
As U.N. Meets on Climate, Momentum Is Elusive
the current temperature stability has created confusion and apathy
Food crisis could force wartime rations and vegetarian diet on Britons
Cereals used to feed farm animals would be shifted into human food production
'Radical rethink' needed on food
Current approach major source of greenhouse gas emissions, pays little attention to soil quality and water use
The Iranian Opposition's Second Life
The potential for a paradigm shift in dissent speech is fast approaching
Experts warned dispersal of Tamiflu would do more harm than good
UK government rejected advice from its expert advisers on swine flu
Epidemic Influenza And Vitamin D : Medical News Today
The best defence against swine flu is probably plain old vitamin D
Baxter Files Swine Flu Vaccine Patent a Year Ahead of Outbreak!!
Baxter Internationa are nothing if not prepared for this ’swine flu’ outbreak as they filed the patent 28th August 2008
Europe fast-tracking swine flu vaccine! Dr. Keiji Fukuda (WHO's flu chief), warned… (Yahoo News)
About the potential dangers of untested vaccines, although he stopped short of criticizing Europe’s approach outright.
Sugar and spice…
Skip breakfast for a daughter, eat up your cereals for a son
Why More Food Is Not the Answer
price of food is now locked into the price of oil
Climate expert says he underestimated threat
Stern: People who said I was scaremongering were profoundly wrong
7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists
one of the most important archaeological finds in a very long time
Limited nuclear war would damage ozone layer
The effect is far greater than was calculated in the 1980s
‘No Sun link’ to climate change
research contradicts a favoured theory of climate “sceptics”
We put it there, so let’s go first in cleaning up
those with the most should do the most
Investor puts his money into the rainforest
“creating wealth that is worth having”
‘Virtual massage’ can relieve amputees’ phantom limb pain
Amputees could find relief in a surprisingly simple way – by watching
‘Darwin chip’ brings evolution into the classroom
demonstrating natural selection in real-time
Anti-depressants’ ‘little effect’
no bigger than a sugar-coated “dummy” pill
The world’s rubbish dump
a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Transplant creates embryos with three parents
first realistic hope of an effective treatment for serious genetic diseases
Report busts the myths on cancer risks
Breast implants, deodorant and coffee unlikely to cause cancer
Geneticists whip up fake DNA
scientists build the entire genome of a bacterium
Tricks the mind plays
Many decisions are facilitated by mental short cuts that usually work well but sometimes trigger misperceptions
Machines ‘to match man by 2029′
machines and humans will eventually merge
Blues of puberty too soon
Girls are developing younger, with consequences
Young chimps trash college kids in memory test
people believe naively that humans are the most intelligent
Where to water
home growing is the best that can be done for the environment
A New Green Economics
UN Sec Gen Ban Ki-Moon: solutions cheaper than imagined
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
does not require highly complex mathematics
Dolly creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning
suggests a way to create stem cells without the need to destroy embryos
Yoga May Help Heart Failure Patients
study finds multiple benefits
Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru
could be the oldest in the Americas
Left of centre — what hands reveal about you
Left-handers really are special
Extreme sex under the sea
Raunch and randiness are rampant among sea creatures
Many US states seen facing water shortages
36 states will face water shortages within five years
Warming linked to mass plant, animal extinctions
could wipe out more than half the world’s species
The future is here right now, if you can read the signs
We are effectively inventing a new species. So where does that leave us then?
The End of ‘Easy Oil’
what is left of the world’s petroleum supply — is the tough oil
Record lows in Arctic ice raise heat
North West passage now ice-free, for the first time since records began
Hlp! My prnts cn cntrl my mbl
Australian co develops world-first software enabling parents to control children’s mobile usage
Man-made microbe ‘to create endless biofuel’
For the first time, God has competition
Scientists develop technique to induce out-of-body experiences
But the neuro-scientific basis of this phenomenon remains unclear
The dawn of time – after 13 billion years in the darkroom
NASA takes photo of the Big Bang
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
NASA’s Cassini mission captures amazing images
Silicon copies
A 3D photocopier that will change the world
Tomorrow world
Futuristic trends in 2007
Global warming study warns of vanishing climates
Scientists warn of disaster in biodiversity hotspots
Chemical Enlightenment
Latest scientific research on spirituality and psilocybin
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Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex:
The US Truth Emergency
Is Obama Keeping His Promises?
After nearly one year in, a look at how the president is doing
What Obama Is Up Against
His biggest problem resides right inside his “team”
Women At Arms – A Combat Role, and Anguish, Too
Iraq and Afghanistan have profoundly redefined the role of women in the military
Latin America's economic rebels
Ecuador and Bolivia are achieving remarkable growth because they reject conventional economic wisdom
Is hope in Obama fading?
A view from across the Pacific
MKULTRA Legacy: The Stain of Dishonor and the Prerequisites for Redemption
America and its military have never come to grips with the programs of using soldiers as guinea pigs
Who Are "The Deciders"?
Is the USA the victim of a virtual military coup?
Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 Even When Consumers Can't Buy And Business Cries "Socialism"
Big business and Wall Street are very quietly in charge
The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama's America: The Rule of Damaged Politics
In the current American political landscape, truth is not merely misrepresented or falsified; it is overtly mocked
Eight Years Ago
Bush saw opportunity, and made the most of it, and we are all less than we were because of it
Afghanistan Looking More and More Like Vietnam
The war effort is all about marshaling massive firepower to fight shadows
The battle for hearts and minds is crashing and burning
Here’s an idea to get people on side in a war: stop bombing them
Mexico and Argentina move towards decriminalising drugs
In a backlash against the US ‘war on drugs’, Latin America turns to a more liberal policy
CIA doctors face human experimentation claims
Physicians for Human Rights calls for official investigation into role of doctors in CIA’s widely discredited program
Reverse bank robbery
No wonder America’s banks are making profits again: the US government is bribing them to borrow its own money
Afghanistan failings sound echoes of Russia's forgotten war
The big difference is that after years of remorseless losses the Soviet leadership realised the war was unwinnable
Chirac, Bush and the Apocalypse
Jacques Chirac knew Bush was religious, but had trouble understanding that the president of the world’s premier power could summon scripture to justify his battle!
Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters
Ratings help Pentagon image-makers manipulate stories
Promises, Promises: Obama wins praise for Katrina
Administration’s “new vision” appears to be turning things around
The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public
A key parallel with Vietnam rarely gets mentioned: the media’s insistent support for the war even after most of the public has turned against it
How settlements in the West Bank are creating a new reality, brick by brick
Israel’s growing infrastructure in the region threatens the possibility of a future Palestinian state
Why is the African continent poor?
Africa is fantastically rich – in minerals, land, labour and sunshine
Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason
How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?
Former Bush aide says politics colored US 'terror alert'
Former US homeland security chief charges that Bush aides pressured him to raise the “terror alert” level to sway the November 2004 US election
Saving the World's Women
Focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism
US economic myths bite the dust
America is not the internationally competitive land of small businesses that politicians love to tout
Military action is dangerous fantasy. We could live with a nuclear Iran
Pre-emptive strikes have no part in serious debate. We must deal with the clerics as self-interested statesmen, not fanatics
Why isn't Obama turning to the Credit Unions?
the Administration, Congress and media have studiously avoided the one sector of the banking industry that actually works
A Mandate for Spreading the Wealth
Current tax structures are steeply tilted to make the rich richer at the expense of others
Obama's War with the Right (& Media)
Obama has thrown down the gauntlet to the American Right not only by tying the current economic crisis to Bush recklessness but by tracing it back further to Reagan
Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?
There are dangerous currents running through America’s politics and the way we confront them is crucial
[AP] Legal immunity for swine flu vaccine makers and federal officials barring lawsuits that may result from swine flu vaccine
Last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims as they suffered side effects from the shots…
Is Bush behind the 911 Attacks? Bold lawyer Stanley Hilton claim evidence.
Does he have a case? Judge for yourself, reading this transcribed radio interview
The patriot Games
publicity stunts on a colossally expensive scale
The changing face of hunger
the real story of the 21st century will not be the price of oil but the price of food
Mantra Meditation Reveals a Hidden Agenda: Are the Gods Alive and Well and Working Towards the ‘New World Order’
In The Name Of The Father
The brain is a window into the self-transcendent states described by mystics
A gentler capitalism
corporate leaders are looking beyond the bottom line
Listen up, you selfish and ignorant people. Stop driving 4WDs
far more dangerous than normal cars
Survey challenges myths about Islam
most Muslims, including radicals, admire the West
Stress with children hits women
women feel more negative about child care, and more positive about paid work, than men
The tiger is not yet roaring
A surprising new view of the world’s economies
Here’s the beef: meat-eating days may be numbered
the true costs of industrial meat production
Conservatism is dying
May it rest in peace
Shoot to thrill
The disturbing link between gaming and the military
Same-sex couples grow in U.S. west, south: study
suggests banning same-sex marriage draws gay couples out of the closet
Subway love an express ’success’
web designer finds dream girl via internet
Piracy not raiding CD sales
file sharing is actually beneficial to music sales
Reunited identical twins expose social experiment
child psychiatrist showed no remorse and offered no apology
It’s child abuse and it’s time it was cut out
How can it be legal or ethical for any human being to choose for another’s body to be irreversibly mutilated?
Why U.S. Food Aid Benefits Big Business and Not Starving People
U.S. food aid lines the pockets of American agribusiness and the shipping industry
Journalism must adapt to change
Public have a more honest assessment of journalism than we give them credit for
UN General Assembly backs indigenous peoples’ rights
Rights of self-determination and human rights standards recognised
Why do some wives still change their names?
Insecure or conservative or stupid women are bowing to the wishes of their husbands
The boom in online ‘death networking’
Offering release for the emotions of the bereaved
Defying belief
The militancy of New Atheism
Former U.S. military commander says elites hide knowledge of Extraterrestrials
UFO Reality is Breaking Through
Scrap the internet, start over
Time to rethink the internet’s underlying architecture?
Learning a new language of love
A woman on the lack of male emotional demonstrativeness
America shows great promise
Is anti-Americanism founded?
Meet the neighbours: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
Would a civilisation evolved enough to find us want to destroy us?
Hope shines in war on poverty
Poverty, health and education are slowly improving
Giving till it doesn’t hurt
Is there an obligation for the rich to give to the poor?
America goes to Pot and Prisons
Facts on marijuana – USA’s biggest cash crop
A time of fear and loathing
Fear in the age of terrorism
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