By Meg Bortin Distrust of the United States has intensified across the world, but overall views of America remain very or somewhat favorable among majorities in 25 of 47 countries surveyed in a major international opinion poll, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday. "Anti-Americanism since 2002 has deepened, but it hasn't really widened," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Global Attitudes Project. "It has worsened ...

President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents and testimony about the firing of U.S. attorneys. His decision was denounced as "Nixonian stonewalling" by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bush rejected subpoenas for documents from former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor. The White House made clear neither one would testify next month, as directed ...

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News  On June 27, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal vied for attention with feature stories on oil giants ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips "walking away from their multi-billion-dollar investments in Venezuela" as the Journal put it or standing "Defiant in Venezuela" as the Times headlined. Both papers can barely contain their displeasure over Hugo Chavez wanting Venezuela to have majority ownership of its own assets ...

Australia is a step closer to a national DNA database with Queensland, Western Australia and the ACT signing the national information-sharing agreement. Only NSW and Victoria are yet to sign up, and they have promised to do so. Federal Justice Minister David Johnston said matching DNA databases across jurisdictions would give investigators far greater ability to catch offenders who have moved interstate. "For too long our efforts to bring about a national DNA ...

Steve Watson Infowars.net An "in depth" study by a core globalist body and also funded in part by all manner of elitist groups and corporations, including the Rockefellers and the Ford Foundation, has found that the people of the world want a global government with a standing army to police the planet. The study (PDF link) has been jointly released by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and ...

By William Roberts A Senate panel probing the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney and the Justice Department for documents showing the Bush administration's legal justification for the secret surveillance. ``This committee has made no fewer than nine formal requests to the Department of Justice and to the White House, seeking information and documents about the authorization of and legal ...

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A new CCTV system developed by ‘Agent Vi’ is being installed in some of the UK’s busiest stations, including Clapham Junction and Paddington Station. The system uses advanced hi-tech monitoring technology to judge behaviour and it is expected that twenty percent all CCTV cameras in the UK will be connected to the system within the next three years. The technology has been on trial at Liverpool Street station since 2003. One of ...

YouTube This clip is from Fox News on September 11, 2001, and is from a Press Conference given by Mayor Giuliani. In the clip, Mayor Giuliani states that he does not believe gas is responsible for the explosions being reported, and emphasizes that the gas has been turned off.

Tony Blair has been appointed as envoy for the Quartet group of Middle East negotiators after he stepped down as Britain's prime minister. Members of the group - the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia - confirmed the position on Wednesday. The decision came after Russia agreed to drop its reservations over the appointment. Michele Montas, Quartet spokesman, said: "Following discussions among the principals, today the Quartet dealing with the Middle ...

There is growing anger among Democrats in the US over Vice-President Dick Cheney's refusal to hand over classified records to the national archives. Mr Cheney had been complying with a presidential order to surrender sensitive papers but then stopped, saying although he works in the White House, he is not part of the executive branch. He argues that he is a member of the legislature because of his dual role as ...

RTT News Two more Republican senators, who had supported President Bush's Iraq war, have announced that they could no longer support the war and have called on him to plan for the withdrawal of 157,000 US troops from Iraq, in a clear sign that Republican congressional support for the White House's Iraq strategy is starting to wane. Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, a member of the ...

CONSTANT BRAND Associated Press A program being launched at 10 U.S. airports this year will expand existing identification checks for visitors, including requiring 10 digital fingerprints, but still operate under strict privacy rules, a senior U.S. official said Monday. The border checks could also soon include other biometric data, such as facial and eye retina scans, as the U.S. upgrades security at its ports, airports and border crossings, said P.T. ...

Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says. Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the nation's largest doctors group said in a report. The association adopted a policy Monday stating that the devices can improve the "safety and efficiency ...

COLIN MOYNIHAN One entry, dated April 14, 1954, was about I. F. Stone, who was described as being a writer from New York. Mr. Stone, it was noted, condemned Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s “persecution of innocent citizens” and likewise the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate’s corresponding committee. Another on Oct. 24, 1966, noted that ...

By Andy Sullivan A high-ranking Bush administration official was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Tuesday for lying to Congress as it investigated a bribery scandal centered on lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Steven Griles, who served as the No. 2 Interior Department official between 2001 and 2005, had hoped to serve his sentence at home working for a charity sponsored by Walt Disney Co. and several outdoor-equipment makers. But ...