In addition to imposing new sanctions on the Tehran government, the US has reportedly begun beefing up its military presence and war paraphernalia off the Iranian coast.
Awash in a sea of debt. Oblivious to the risks, Canadians are piling on record debt loads.
Household debt levels in Canada are fast approaching the dangerous levels seen in foreclosure-ravaged America.
Why Iraq Remains a Puzzle for the US
Dick Cheney thought the US occupation would see a quadrupling of Iraq’s capacity to pump oil, and a privatization of its production. Not quite.
Children Prisoners of the U.S. War of Terror
Many people in this country are aware of the atrocious conditions and treatment of adult prisoners in the U.S. war of terror. These prisoners have been held at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram, and other hellholes run by the U.S. But few are aware that thousands of children have also been taken by the U.S. and its allies in this war of terror. A few of these children have been held at Guantanamo and have received some publicity, but most h…
Afghan ‘geological reserves worth a trillion dollars’
– Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. The war–ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters… "The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand billion dollars – – not a thousand million dollars b…
Nigerian oil pipes closed down by sabotage
‘The 401(k) will turn out to be the greatest systemic financial hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public’.
The war profiteers (including those on the ‘left’)
–Today the New York Times offers an editorial on war profiteering in Iraq but we need to remember, it wasn’t just the munitions makers, not just the weapons makers, it was the faux peace set, it was the pseudo activists. It is Amy Goodman, Norman Solomon, Tom Hayden and so damn many others who made like nobody’s heart bled more on your TV and radio pretending to give a damn about the Iraq War – – the ongoing Iraq War – – whenever they ha …
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Disdain vs Democracy By Joel S. Hirschhorn ~ That strange sound you hear if you listen closely is Senator Ted Kennedy spinning in his grave. Could he have possibly imagined a worse consequence of his departure from the Senate when health care reform was so close?
Kvetcher in the Rye In the sixth grade, the Boys’ Vice–Principal threatened to suspend me from school unless I stopped carrying around The Catcher in the Rye I think because it had the word ‘fuck’ in it. Since the Boys’ Vice-Principal hadn’t read the book – – and I don’t think he’d ever read any book – – he couldn’t tell me why.
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Maziki Thame- René Préval sold Haiti to the USA for US$100 million. The Americans’ pledge of US$100 million in assistance to Haiti following the earthquake disaster of January 12 must have sealed the agreement for US control over Haiti. The Americans have been deeply embedded in Haitian politics from its independence, through various dictatorships and throughout its fragile democratisation. A commitment to Haitian democratisation has neve.…
It Begins: Cash Strapped Cities Begin To Crumble
Muscling Latin America: In recent years, Washington has experienced a fast erosion of its influence in South America, driven by the rise of Brazil, the region's left turn, the growing influence of China and Venezuela’s use of oil revenue to promote a multipolar diplomacy.
Scientists Communicate With Vegetative Man
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything.
It emphasizes the importance of our need to focus on the 3 "E’s" of energy depletion, environment, and economic collapse on local levels as opposed to federal government solutions which only exacerabate the severity of these issues. ~ Carolyn Baker
My comment: This is yet another way in which the poor are mosthammered by collapse. Slow, organic food is almost always moreexpensive at this point in time and mostly out of reach for them.
Will Publishers Let Facebook Become the Web’s Biggest News Source?
The key to the control America has over the Internet is through the management of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the giant servers that service the Internet.
Spin-Off Company Launches Free Energy-Saving Software
MiserWare Inc. of Blacksburg, Va., founded by Kirk Cameron and Joseph Turner in 2007 to commercialize energy-saving technologies developed at Virginia Tech for PCs, laptops, and servers, is giving away software for PC Windows users.
The Food–Mood Connection
There’s a good chance you may be eating a livestock drug banned in 160 nations.
Pregnancy-related deaths rise in California, but state officials have held onto report.
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It’s Your Call ~ dedicated to the Younger Generation A plea to the Younger Generation, the ones who will either help us trash this Sacred Planet or SAVE Her… In this film, I am honoring the Student in all of us, and trying to show them the challenges we all face. … Submitted by Luc Majno
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Obama: Time for 'painful choices' in deficit battle [video]
"Because we've heard plenty of talk and a lot of yelling on TV about deficits, and it's now time to come together and make the painful choices we need to eliminate those deficits," Obama said in his weekly radio address. The White House is forecasting a deficit for the full fiscal year of 2010 of some 1.5 trillion dollars, which would eclipse the record of 1.416 trillion in the fiscal year ended September 30. John Palmer, dean emeritus of the Syracuse University Maxwell School, warned earlier this month that the future economic pro...
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