Η Παγκόσμια Τράπεζα χρησιμοποιεί σύμφωνα με τις υπάρχουσες πληροφορίες τις αμερικανικές νομισματικές συνεισφορές για να βοηθήσει τη συγκέντρωση του Ιράν και να αναπτύξει τις διάφορους βιομηχανίες και τον τομέα του αερίου της.
Η πολύπλευρη αντιπροσωπεία εγγύησης επένδυσης της Παγκόσμιας Τράπεζας (MIGA) έχει εκδώσει $122.2 εκατομμύρια στην κάλυψη εγγύησης για τρεις ξένες επιχειρήσεις που έχουν επενδύσει στη συνέχεια συνολικά $42.8 εκατομμύρια στο πετροχημικό Mehr του Ιράν […]

Martin Fletcher στη Βαγδάτη και Robin Pagnamenta
Η παραγωγή πετρελαίου στο Ιράκ είναι σε πιό υψηλό επίπεδό της από την εμάς-οδηγημένη εισβολή του 2003, που φθάνει σε 2.4 εκατομμύριο βαρέλια ημερησίως, κυρίως χάρις στα βελτιωμένα μέτρα ασφάλειας στο Βορρά.
Το Υπουργείο πετρελαίου της χώρας θα προσκαλέσει σύντομα τις διεθνείς επιχειρήσεις πετρελαίου για να προσφέρει για τις συμβάσεις για να ενισχυθεί το Ιράκ για να ωθήσει […]

AFP
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday that waterboarding is not currently authorized for CIA interrogations, but said he would not answer questions from Congress on the technique’s legality in general.
Mukasey, who is to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, said that since becoming attorney general on November 9 he had been briefed […]

The Profile of a Third World Country
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the US economy.
In the current issue of Manufacturing & Technology News, Washington economist Charles McMillion observes that seven years of Bush has seen the federal debt increase by two-thirds while […]

Jonathan Oliver
THE BBC last night faced accusations of pro-Brussels bias as it was revealed that the corporation had taken out £141m in “soft” loans from the European Union.
The broadcaster has taken out three separate low interest loans from the EU-backed European Investment Bank (EIB) to fund the expansion of its growing commercial empire.
It also emerged […]

Jason BeattieThe Labour Party received thousands of pounds from an offshoot of Scientology, the Evening Standard reveals today.
The decision to accept money from a charity linked to the controversial cult was taken at the highest level by members of the National Executive Committee.
They allowed the charity, the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), to […]

By Andre Damon
The five largest Wall Street banks doled out a record $39 billion in bonuses last year, according to data collected by the Bloomberg news service. After driving hundreds of thousands of families into foreclosure, causing a financial crisis affecting hundreds of millions, and pushing the US and world economies closer to recession, it […]

[Seminole County, Florida, is a hotbed of opposition to teaching evolution]
AD AGE - “This is a good day for parents and children in Seminole County and anyone who believes that corporations should not prey on children in schools,” said Dr. Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. “We are pleased that McDonald’s […]

They’re leaving “the Company” to snoop on your company. How C.I.A. agents are pushing corporate espionage to ominous new extremes.
Douglas Frantz

Photograph by: Matt Hoyle
In early September 2006, a vice president of Wal-Mart sent a highly personal email to his boss through what he thought was a safe email account. “My Gmail is secure,” Sean Womack […]

Robert Weissman
The U.S. public holds Big Business in shockingly low regard.
A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be “generally honest and trustworthy:” tobacco companies (3 percent); oil companies (3 percent); managed care companies such as HMOs (5 percent); health insurance companies […]

Steven Swinford and Jon Ungoed-Thomas
BRITAIN’S biggest energy companies have stifled competition to raise prices and make record profits of more than £4.5 billion, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
The six companies that control Britain’s gas and electricity are now facing demands that they be referred to the Competition Commission.
Executives in charge of the six major […]

Associated Press
The dollar rose slightly against the euro and pound on Friday, benefiting from nervous currency investors withdrawing from risky “carry trades.”
A slumping Wall Street, which fell more than 300 points on Friday, drove traders away from those trades.
Carry trades involve borrowing currencies from countries with low interest rates, such as Japan and Switzerland, and […]

By Matt Sullivan
India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit […]

Templewest
Almost every news network did a story in 2007 about foreigners coming to the states to shop and invest, even in real estate.  What compelled this behavior?
Among the many troubles confounding Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke during this credit crisis is the steady decline of the U.S. dollar.  He and the Fed have reduced the federal funds target rate, […]

As more news about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination comes out, clearly implicating the Musharraff regime in the murder, our tax dollars are going toward paying Lockheed Martin for weapons to Pakistan.
“Washington, Jan 1 - The US Defence Department has awarded a $498.2 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp to supply 18 F-16 aircraft to Pakistan just […]