Από το Mike Adams | Είναι αρκετά προφανές σε καθένας που δίνει την προσοχή ότι η αμερικανική αυτοκρατορία, όπως αυτήν την περίοδο διαμορφώνεται και λειτουργημένος, δεν είναι απλά βιώσιμη. Η οικονομική κατάρρευση είναι αναπόφευκτη (και επιταχύνοντας, φαίνεται), και ακόμη και η επικρατούσα τάση Αμερική δεν μπορεί πλέον να αρνηθεί τα προφανή σημάδια ότι τα πράγματα έχουν πάει τρομερά λανθασμένα: Ανεβάζοντας στα ύψη τιμές καυσίμων, πρωτοφανής πληθωρισμός στις τιμές τροφίμων, αχαλίνωτες επιδημίες της αποτρέψιμης εκφυλιστικής ασθένειας, πέφτοντας κατακόρυφα τιμές ακίνητων περιουσιών, όλο και περισσότερο-άνευ αξίας ένας εθνικός…

Από Paul Rockwell | Υπάρχουν δύο είδη θάρρους στον πόλεμο - φυσικό θάρρος και ηθικό θάρρος. Το φυσικό θάρρος είναι πολύ κοινό στο πεδίο μάχη. Οι άνδρες και οι γυναίκες και στις δύο πλευρές διακινδυνεύουν τις ζωές τους, τοποθετούν τους οργανισμούς τους στον τρόπο της ζημιάς. Το ηθικό θάρρος, εντούτοις, είναι αρκετά σπάνιο. Σύμφωνα με το Chris Hedges, ο λαμπρός πολεμικός ανταποκριτής New York Times που επέζησε των πολέμων στη Λατινική Αμερική, Αφρική, ο μέσος…

Από Paul Kane | 92 έως 6 ψηφοφορία, η Συγκλήτου εγκεκριμένης χθες απεριόριστη χρηματοδότηση για τους πολέμους στο Ιράκ και το Αφγανιστάν που επιτρέπει τη συνέχεια του τρέχοντος στρατιωτικού σχεδίου δράσης μέσω του τέλους του όρου Προέδρου Bush's και πέρα. Σε αντάλλαγμα εκείνης της άδειας ελευθερίας να λειτουργήσει στο Ιράκ, ο Μπους συμφώνησε με τις απαιτήσεις από τους του Κογκρέσου δημοκράτες να δημιουργήσει ένα νέο όφελος τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης για…

Ανεξάρτητη ένωση εργατικής τάξης | … και όλοι ξέρουμε ποιος το έσπασε όταν καταδύεται κάτω από έναν πραγματικό κατακλυσμό των ιδεολογικά-οδηγημένων μεταρρυθμίσεων `», παίρνει κάτι ιδιαίτερα imbecilic για να προκαλέσει μια διπλός-λήψη. Το Louise Casey, ο mouthy πρώιν αρχηγός της ομάδας εργασίας σεβασμού κυβερνητικού `», τίθεται ως στόχος να κατευθύνει το πιό πρόσφατο νέο τέχνασμα εργασίας σε παραγγελία νόμου» ν. Among the 20 proposals that fade from the merely banal to the truly asinine here ...

By Michael McCarthy | MI5 and flood risk experts are at odds over whether to publish inundation maps highlighting areas under threat if any of the country's dams were to collapse. The Security Service says that the information could show terrorists where an attack on a dam might have the most impact.   Experts in the Cabinet Office and the Environment Agency feel the time has come to make the ...

By Bruce Schneier | Pervasive security cameras don't substantially reduce crime. There are exceptions, of course, and that's what gets the press. Most famously, CCTV cameras helped catch James Bulger's murderers in 1993. And earlier this year, they helped convict Steve Wright of murdering five women in the Ipswich area. But these are the well-publicised exceptions. Overall, CCTV cameras aren't very effective. This fact has been demonstrated again ...

Socialist Worker | Gordon Brown says we must all take a wage cut – but up to 800,000 local government workers are set to walk out over pay. Gordon Brown, chancellor Alistair Darling, and Bank of England governor Mervyn King lined up last week to deliver pious lectures on why workers must accept wage cuts to help stop inflation. But it is not wages that are pushing up ...

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels | Future referendums will be ignored whether they are held in Ireland or elsewhere, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the architect of the European Union Constitution said. The former President of France drafted the old Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago before being resurrected as the Lisbon EU Treaty, itself shunned by the Irish two weeks ago. Mr Giscard d'Estaing told ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina: Federal agents raided Blackwater Worldwide this week as part of an investigation into whether the private security company sidestepped federal laws prohibiting the private purchase of automatic assault rifles, the company said Thursday. Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched Blackwater's armory at its corporate headquarters in Moyock on Tuesday as part of the ...

The majority of police chiefs are against a universal DNA database for the people of Britain. At a meeting during the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) annual conference, 61 per cent of police chiefs voted against the idea of putting all UK residents on the national database. Only 38 per cent of those present at the vote supported a universal database with one per cent unsure. The national DNA database is a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) | The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday. The NSA has refused to say whether it listened in on the conversations of the lawyers who are advising detainees being held at the U.S. naval facility ...

By Greg Miller | WASHINGTON -- The United States has paid more than $5 billion to reimburse Pakistan for counter-terrorism expenses that have often been exaggerated, if not fabricated, according to a government audit released Tuesday that blasts the Pentagon for poor management of the program. The report concluded that the Pentagon could not properly account for as much as $2 billion in payments to Pakistan over a three-year ...

By Doug Smith | BAGHDAD -- Nine Iraqi civilians were killed Wednesday in two armed clashes involving U.S. soldiers, local authorities reported. The military said U.S. soldiers were fired upon first in both incidents. In the capital, three people were killed in a fiery crash after gunfire erupted as their vehicle passed U.S. soldiers with a convoy stopped near the Baghdad international airport to recover a stalled vehicle. Officials at ...

By Ron F | According to UN figures, in the 2000 growing season opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan covered 82,000 hectares. (1) Following a ban ruthlessly enforced by the Taliban opium cultivation declined to 8,000 hectares in the following year, according to the same reporting agency. Much of this remaining opium cultivation was carried out in areas not under Taliban control, but by our friends in the ...

Democracy Now! |  Listen to the Interview Audio stream  Download mp3  Criticism of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and the actions of his ruling Zanu PF party is growing. The most recent condemnation comes from former South African President Nelson Mandela, who mourned the “tragic failure of leadership” in Zimbabwe on Wednesday. They were the former leader’s first comments on the situation. President Bush also criticized Mugabe Wednesday for defying international ...