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10 Reasons You Should be Suspicious of Wall Street's Facebook Fiasco

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:31:00 +0000

Three of Wall Street biggest and best-known financial institutions handled the Facebook IPO, so why were people immediately suspicious when the stock soared and then promptly tanked?

Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:29:00 +0000

On most days, Bill Dewey can be found wearing waist-high waders and inspecting Manila clams—the West Coast version of the littleneck—at his Washington clam farm, Chuckanut Shellfish.

Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:27:00 +0000

With the high-profile arrest of activists on terrorism charges in Cleveland on May Day and in Chicago during the NATO summit there, evidence is mounting that the FBI is unleashing the same methods of...

Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models...

Washington D.C. booms but unease at racial divide

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:33:00 +0000

It was once known as the “Murder Capital of the World,” a city beset by a crack epidemic, no-go areas and resulting crime which triggered decades of white flight to the suburbs.

Ernest Callenbach: Last Words to an America in Decline

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Ernest Callenbach, author of the beloved 1975 utopian novel “Ecotopia,” died of cancer last month at the age of 83. Days later, a sort of farewell detailing his hopes for the world he left behind was discovered on his computer.

What is Google Doing With the Contents of Your Hard Drive?

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:26:00 +0000

When you hear the phrase “property rights,” you probably think of farmers fighting environmental regulators and homeowners arguing with oil drillers.

Will a Militarized Police Force Facing Occupy Wall Street Lead to Another Kent State Massacre?

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:24:00 +0000

Today is an ugly anniversary in American history: 42 years ago, National Guardsman opened fire on anti-Vietnam protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students.

Why Are Universities Buying Up Drones Faster Than Police Departments?

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:22:00 +0000

For all the attention given to U.S. law enforcement’s interest in adopting drones, the biggest users turn out to be not police departments, but universities.

The Empire versus Iran and Syria: A New World War for a New World Order?

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:19:00 +0000

Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global?

FROM LIBYA TO SYRIA: "WAR IS A RACKET. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN"

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:59:00 +0000

“War is a racket. It always has been.” These words are as true now as they were when Major General Smedley Butler first delivered them in a series of speeches in the 1930s...

Washington Leads The World Into Lawlessness

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:56:00 +0000

The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed...

SPYING ON AMERICANS: Obama's Backdoor "" ...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:20:00 +0000

Under the guise of "cybersecurity," the new all-purpose bogeyman to increase the secret state's already-formidable reach, the Obama administration and their congressional allies are...

Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:16:00 +0000

It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians -- and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm the global economy and yet, history tells us, it will fail on its own.

The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:14:00 +0000

One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran.