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Ending Poverty in a Carbon Constrained World

By Andrew Simms -The New Economics Foundation | Several years ago the International Red Cross sent me on behalf the World Disasters Report to assess...

RINF Launches Web Hosting Service

RINF has launched a new web hosting service for businesses, individuals, groups and campaigns. As dissident websites and blogs are increasingly being censored and in some cases...

Creating the Next Society: Your Revolutionary Ideas Needed Now

By Mike Adams | It's fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that the American Empire, as currently configured and operated, is simply not sustainable....

Fortress Britain

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the Daily Mail late last year,...

Letter to Ian Blair by George Galloway

I write in connection with the police operation surrounding the President George W Bush to Downing Street today. I am not a habitual complainer...

General Accuses White House of War Crimes

By Dan Froomkin | The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration...

Bush’s “ownership society” hits the canvas

By Mike Whitney | The economy is in tatters. Consumer confidence has plummeted, food and energy prices are soaring, and the housing market is...

Our Government’s Dirty Little Secrets

By George Galloway | A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the liberties of our...

Potential Future Hyperinflation

By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Walter "John" Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading, but you won't find him in...

Clinton Suspends Her Presidential Campaign

By Paul Harris | Hillary Clinton yesterday suspended her bid to become America's first woman president and vowed to help Barack Obama in his...

Labour is stealing our civil liberties

By Cath Elliott | It seems incredible now, but on the May 3 1997 I actually celebrated Labour's election victory. After 18 years of...

‘Iraq Troop Pullout Would Harm Israel’

US presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain on Monday criticized Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's calls for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, saying that...

‘Challenging Authority’

By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Frances Fox Piven is a Canadian-born Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University...

McCain: Most Troops Will Be Home by 2013

Senator John McCain declared on Thursday that most American troops will be home from Iraq by 2013 and that Iraq will be a functioning...

The Pentagon vs. America

By Scott Ritter | I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail...

Iraq ‘Divide and Rule’ Strategy Called Shortsighted

Inter Press Service | Five years since U.S. President George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, critics say the administration has yet to show...

Anti-War T-Shirter Sued for $40B

AP - PHOENIX | A Tennessee couple who lost their son in Iraq want an Arizona merchant to pay more than $40 billion in damages...

Olympic Torch Back in China After Protest-Filled Trip

CNS | Back on Chinese soil after a troubled trip around the world, the Olympic torch relay's journey through Hong Kong Friday will be a...

10 US diplomats ordered to leave Belarus

Reuters | Ten US diplomats were ordered to leave Belarus within 72 hours on Wednesday, intensifying a row over sanctions and human rights. US...

Green Scare State Terrorism

By Stephen Lendman - RINF | In May 2005, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis told a Senate panel that ecoterrorism is...

Corporate America

By Chris Hedges | The corporate state is our shadow government. Candidates who aspire to higher office get corporate money if they promote corporate interests....

What the world thinks of Bush and his war

After Downing Street | To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the...

Bush Secrecy Policies Transforming U.S. Government

By Sherwood Ross | President George W. Bush has transformed an open federal government in Washington into one of “pervasive secrecy,” a distinguished authority on...

U.S. Islamic group argues against warrantless wiretaps

AP | An Islamic charity group is challenging the Bush administration's record use of the so-called state secrets privilege, dubbed a "killer bullet" to...

Anonymous protests Scientology corporation

InfoBomb Indymedia More than 70 protestors gathered on Ethel Street in central Birmingham on Saturday 12th, wearing distinctive masks and costumes to protest against the abusive...

The BBC as an Imperial Tool?

Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print...

Revolution is the Solution

By Cindy Sheehan One of the founders of the USA, Thomas Jefferson, said that the US should have a revolution every 20 years or so...

Olympic torch route changed and hidden

San Francisco - The symbolic Olympic torch was lit Wednesday in San Francisco in a bizarre event that saw it taken into hiding in...

Olympic Torch Run Halted as Protests Spread

KATRIN BENNHOLD and ELISABETH ROSENTHAL PARIS - What was supposed to be a majestic procession through the French capital for the Olympic torch turned into...

Iran torpedoes US plans for Iraqi oil

In the highly competitive world of international politics, nation states very rarely miss an opportunity to crow about success stories. The opportunity comes rare,...

Media Tells People To Drink Soda Not Water

As proof that mainstream health information continutes to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation...

Adbusters’ Ads Busted

By James H. Ewert Jr. Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine, that goes...

America leads tributes to Martin Luther King

Evening Echo Americans remembered Martin Luther King’s dream of social justice on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s assassination today. The 39-year-old civil rights...

9/11 Truth Movement vs. 9/11 Truth

I found myself once again singing at an antiwar rally two weeks ago, and once again being confronted by a red-faced white man with...

McCain walking out on Bush?

In a sudden turn of events, Republican Bush-faithful Senator John McCain is distancing himself from the US president's go-it-alone approach. In a Wednesday speech...

Scientology Strikes Back – Anonymous Responds

For months, a group calling itself Anonymous has been running giggling circles around the Church of Scientology. At the same time, caution is always...

How Corporations Took Over The Supreme Court

The headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, located across from Lafayette Park in Washington, is a limestone structure that looks almost as majestic...

Minister jeered by teachers over tests & class sizes

The Schools minister, Jim Knight, was given a public dressing down by teachers yesterday as he sought to defend large class sizes and the...

Media should press candidates on open government

WASHINGTON – At a time of continued government secrecy, the news media should press the presidential candidates on whether their administration would enforce "the...

Police Censorship of Smash Edo film

Police have intervened across the country to censor 'On the Verge' an independent documentary about a campaign to shut down a Brighton weapons manufacturer....

Wiretapping’s true danger

History says we should worry less about privacy and more about political spying. As the battle over reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rages...

The Iraq War as a War Crime

The Iraq War — now ending its fifth bloody year — represents not only a human tragedy of enormous consequence and possibly the greatest...

McCain the Warmonger?

If you've followed Senator John McCain at all, you've heard about his tendency to, well, explode. He's erupted at numerous Senate colleagues, including many...

Clinton Would Ban Private Military Contractors

Hillary Clinton, in a speech marking the five-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, said that if elected, she would pull armed...

Amnesty: Human rights in Iraq ‘disastrous’

LONDON - Amnesty International on Monday said the rights situation in Iraq five years after the US-led invasion was "disastrous" and that the country...

Guantanamo: The Bigger Picture?

 The U.S. base at Guantanamo has been called many things. The "gulag of our time" (Amnesty International General Secretary Irene Khan, May 2005). "The...

Torture? We’ll just turn a very British blind eye

We were told that Saddam Hussein was an enemy of mankind because he used torture. Now we witness the gruesome spectacle of President Bush...

Budget Falls A Long Way Short On Green Action

Environmentalists are calling Alistair Darling's first Budget as Chancellor a 'green smokescreen', accusing him of giving with one hand, but taking away with the...

George Bush lashes out at Hugo Chavez

George Bush has accused the Venezuelan president of "praising terrorists" and of squandering his country's oil wealth to fuel a campaign against the US. The...

CIA Holocaust Claims Twenty Million Victims

The world's number one terrorist organization, the CIA has committed heinous acts of terrorism abroad, murdering critics of US foreign and domestic policies and...

Government tries to abuse the Bill of Rights

Government and the Speaker of the House of Commons collude to try to abuse the 17th Century Bill of Rights to suppress the FOIA...

The North American Union – Voting Your Rights Away?

Barbara L. Minton One issue that is conspicuously absent from the rhetoric of the presidential candidates is the North American Union (NAU). The questions of...

VIDEO: The Invisible Government

John Pilger's talk on "The invisible Goverment" is an education in itself about the role of the media from the 1920's onward. Pilger explains...

Wikileaks and Internet Censorship

JONATHAN WERVE Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court's recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context....

Mass Psychology and Education

Brent Jessop "For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system when it is Russian but disliked the very...

VIDEO: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo  A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and...

Ron Paul: Secretive elite controls America

Presidential candidate Ron Paul says he traces America's problems to the flawed monetary policy of the wealthy and secretive elite. During a speech at...

Chomsky: US acts like Nazi Germany

Prominent linguist Noam Chomsky bashes the 'imperialistic' foreign policies of the US, likening Washington to the Nazis in Germany. Chomsky compared US foreign policies...

Was 9/11 Truth Giuliani’s Demise?

Was 9/11 Truth Giuliani's Demise? You'll be AMAZED What Corporate Media Hid from YOU! by Bill Douglas   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxycV4fNPnQ  Peggy Noonan, a Republican speechwriter (Reagan’s among others), was...

Life in Occupied Gaza

Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Life in occupied Gaza was never easy, but conditions worsened markedly after Hamas' surprise January 2006 electoral victory. Israel refused recognition...

Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency

By Sharon Weinberger One of the many things I love about Donald Rumsfeld is that he's totally unrepentant. Back in 2001, the Pentagon under his...

British Government Censoring The Web

Frank Fisher When asked to name countries that impose extensive internet censorship, you might think of China, Iran, or North Korea; I doubt you'd think...

Current financial crisis was topic of Bilderberg 2006

The current financial crisis that has happened due to the Sub prime mortgage crisis was a main topic at Bilderberg 2006 in Ottowa. The green...

Institutionalized Spying On Americans

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News This article reviews two police state tools (among many in use) in America. One is new, undiscussed and largely unknown...

CIA Hid Other Tapes From 9/11 Commission

 jimd3100We know now that the CIA kept from the 9/11 Commission tapes of al Qaeda suspects in violation of law. But why isn't mainstream...

History of Rudy Giuliani’s Temper

Before he decided that September 11 was his own personal self-aggrandizement machine, Rudy Giuliani pissed off a whole slew of people in a remarkable...

Double Agent Gadahn Threatens Bush In Neo-Con Stunt

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Zionist who once called Muslims "bloodthirsty terrorists" helps Giuliani's flagging numbers before New Hampshire primary Adam Pearlman, the Jewish Mossad agent who...

The Diana inquiry cop who was on £1,000 a day

Britain's former top policeman Lord Stevens was paid £1,000 a day for taking charge of the inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of...

History of Presidential Drug & Alcohol Abuse

Sobercircle.com George W. Bush There has been no shortage of controversy when it comes to the younger years of our current president. Described as irresponsible and...

Giuliani Secrecy

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has long described his City Hall as an open book. But at least one First Amendment authority is...

FDA Caving to Corps

The Food and Drug Administration is developing a proposal for how drug companies can inform doctors about drug uses that aren't FDA approved, a...

Ron Paul is needed to end the war

Many have speculated what will happen if Rep. Ron Paul is not elected president. The obvious answer is that nothing will change; that is,...

Bringing the War on Terrorism Home

Congress Considers Methods to Disrupt Movements in the United States Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers How to ‘Disrupt’ Radical Movements in the...

HILLARY QUOTES: How Common?

Hat Tip to Earl1911 for finding these! Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king...

Google Refuses to Run Impeachment Ad

By Ralph Lopez Google has refused to run the following sponsored ad and link paid for by the Northeast Impeachment Coalition and YaliesForImpeachment.org: Help Impeach Cheney...

Son of Satan is Unhappy. Wonder Why?

Tony Blair is supposed to be enjoying the high life after leaving office but friends say he is miserable On the face of it, retirement...

Gordon Brown threatens Iran’s oil interests

Gordon Brown threatens Iran’s oil interests unless it curbs nuclear ambition Philip Webster Gordon Brown last night proposed a worldwide ban on companies developing Iran’s oil...

9/11 Seminar

On 25th November 2007, the Changing Times organisation, based in Lewes, will be holding a Sunday afternoon seminar to give a focused look at the...

‘I feared I’d end up dead in the woods like Dr Kelly’

'I feared I'd end up dead in the woods like Dr Kelly,' says biological warfare expert who criticised Britain and U.S. By GLEN OWEN and...

Blair accused of ‘gold-digging’

Tony Blair has been accused of "gold-digging" and "money-sucking" after he reportedly charged £240,000 for giving a speech in China. The China Youth Daily...

Sir Ian Blair’s behaviour is simply criminal

By Simon Heffer Can you imagine the shamelessness and moral depravity of someone who is paid a huge sum of money to do a job,...

Journalists must challenge government

By Keith Robinson Journalists must continue to aggressively challenge authority in government even though the public does not hold the news media in such high...

I Witnessed ‘Waterboarding’ — And, Yes, It is Torture

Memo to Media: I Witnessed 'Waterboarding' -- And, Yes, It is Torture Four decades ago, as a reporter in Vietnam, I saw what it...

Our Man in Islamabad

Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was established in August,1947 when its majority Muslim population separated from British-controlled India and became a...

A Toxic Mix of Neoliberal & Neocon

Sarko comes across as a neoconand, like Bush, driven by the concept of a New World Order Both Left and Right dislike the direction HyperSarko is taking...

David Ray Griffin Interview

David Ray Griffin Interview - DRG Answers Your Questions RINF members had the opportunity to put questions to one of the worlds most credible and...

Fake story may have started the Iraq war

Big News Network It is possible a fabricated story of biological weapons drove the U.S argument for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. U.S television network CBS...

Congressional Shame and Duplicity

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News The latest October Reuters/Zogby Index shows record low approval ratings for George Bush and Congress - 24% for the president...

De Menezes ‘shot for 30 seconds’ to silence him? Why?

By John A Blacker RINF Alternative News Witness feared terrorists were attacking train as police GUNNED Brazilian, leaked statement reveals Armed police officers under the control of...

Government secrecy changes promised

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presented plans to overhaul secrecy and data protection laws. In a speech on the subject of liberty, the Prime Minister...

‘Ghost prisoners’ not accounted for after held by CIA

Rights groups wonder where the roughly 30 are being kept By CRAIG WHITLOCK On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons...

Promised Social Change in Ecuador

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Raphael Correa was elected Ecuador's president last November and took office January 15 promising social change. He's the country's eighth...

HOW AMERICA’S democracy is being stolen

With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP's neck, do you think...

Open Letter to the Government from an AWOL Soldier

By James Circello, Iraq Veterans Against The War To those Businessmen and women holding seats in Congress, To the Highest Court of America, To every Department within...

Russian Press Blasts Anglo-Saxon Terrorist Controllers

Webster Griffin Tarpley www.tarpley.net In the wake of the terrorist atrocity at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin...

UK government accessing telephone records

Indymedia At the beginning of October, the Labour government “activated” part three of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) granting various branches of...

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008

#1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person” Sources: Consortium, October 19, 2006 Title: “Who Is ‘Any Person’ in Tribunal Law?” Author: Robert Parry http://consortiumnews.com/2006/101906.html Consortium, February 3, 2007 Title: “Still No...

Media propaganda against Iran

Farsi: "Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad." Translation: "The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the...

Greenspan’s Dark Legacy Unmasked

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News After retiring as the Federal Reserve's second longest ever serving chairman, Alan Greenspan is now cashing in big late in...

Do you know the truth about the EU?

http://drjn.co.uk/  1. The Queen has signed 6 of the 7 EU Treaties. 2. The 6 treaties define and build the EU as an unelected dictatorship. 3. The...

Revealed: script for Bush’s mangled words

By David Usborne There is nothing mysterious about George Bush when he comes to the annual General Assembly of the United Nations. He comes, he...

Hypocrite Bush hits out at tyrants and human rights abuse

Editors note: One word - Guantanamo George Bush yesterday launched a fierce attack on countries which he accused of human rights abuse. The president used a UN...

US captivated in the theater of war

By Ira Chernus A week has passed since President George W Bush announced that US troops will stay in Iraq in "a security engagement that...

Reviewing Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation...

Labour accused of building a “surveillance society

By Nigel Morris and Ben Russell Labour has been accused of building a "surveillance society behind the backs of the British people" as it has...

Americans Wrong On Their Rights

ACCORDING to a new poll released by the nonpartisan, nonprofit First Amendment Center, 55 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. Constitution establishes a...

Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards

Executives with the search engine want to start a discussion about international privacy standards which work to protect everyone's privacy on the Internet.

Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq

By Barry Grey President Bush’s nationally televised speech, delivered Thursday evening from the Oval Office, was the low point of a week of lies and...

Files prove that MI5 spied on SNP

MARC HORNE   THE SNP was spied on by British secret service agents, previously classified Government files seen by Scotland on Sunday have finally proved. Claims of...

Court Case of Suspected Terrorist‏

WILMA RILEY A JURY in the trial of a student accused of terror offences must decide if he is "a wannabe suicide bomber" or a...

Judge rules internet spying illegal

By Iain Thomson A US judge has ruled that the FBI cannot spy on people's internet and telephone use without a warrant. Judge Victor Marrero, of...

Bush’s Iraq swagger a distant memory

In the heady days when US Marines toppled a huge statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad, President George W. Bush was riding high...

War and the ‘New World Order’

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya “We are now at the year 1908, which was the year that the Carnegie Foundation began operations. And, in that year,...

The War On Working Americans – Part I

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News As Labor Day approaches, what better time to assess the state of working America. It's under assault and weakened by...

The police are becoming an anti-terror law unto themselves

GORDON ARCHER THE Metropolitan Police took a lot of flak last week for using anti-terrorism powers to manage the Heathrow climate change protest. In my...

Market Efficiency Hokum

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News You know the story triumphantly heard in the West. Markets work best when governments let them operate freely - unconstrained...

America and Venezuela – Constitutional Worlds Apart

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Although imperfect, no country anywhere is closer to a model democracy than Venezuela under President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias. In...

A “Slow Motion Train Wreck”

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News  These days, financial/market punditry seems to follow two opposite lines of thinking. It ranges from the predominant view that world...

Govt gives anti-Bush school production a bad review

The Australian Government has accused a Sydney high school of hijacking an annual competition to protest against a visit by United States President George...

Rudy Giuliani’s Five Big Lies About 9/11

On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record By Wayne Barrett Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still...

Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg’s “Cracks in the Constitution”

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Ferdinand Lundberg (1905 - 1995) was a 20th century economist, journalist, historian and author of such books as The Rich...

Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans

MYTH: This is merely a "terrorist surveillance program." REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist, both the criminal code and intelligence...

DNA swab brings us closer to a police state

The move to widen the UK genetic database is yet another example of a relentless desire to monitor every aspect of our everyday lives Henry...

Big brother Britain

How can free people grapple with growing threats to their privacy and liberty? A computer-security guru's view of the surveillance dystopia worries Becky Hogge Becky...

Statists Use Twisted Logic To Attack The Bill Of Rights

Brandon SmithAlt MarketMay 8, 2013 In the war for the continued existence of our Nation’s Constitutional principles, I had long wondered whether statists were simply...

Judge Orders Conspiracy Re-Education For Lauryn Hill

Singer told to undergo counseling over ‘conspiracy theory’ that music industry strangles real talent Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.com May 8, 2013 Grammy award-winning singer Lauren Hill has...

Judge Orders Conspiracy Re-Education For Lauryn Hill

Singer told to undergo counseling over ‘conspiracy theory’ that music industry strangles real talent Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com May 8, 2013 Grammy award-winning singer Lauren Hill...

Not even good enough for dog food: Imported food from China loaded with chemicals,...

Mike AdamsNatural NewsMay 10, 2013 (NaturalNews) Do you really know what’s in all the food you’re...