Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group (Agence France Presse)

Sept. 10, 2009 -- BANGKOK (Agence France Presse) -- Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars ...

Washington Turns on Obama Heckler Joe Wilson After Healthcare 'Liar' Gibe (Nico Hines)

Sept. 10, 2009 (The Times Online/UK) -- In a rare moment of unity in the bitter American healthcare debate, both sides of the political spectrum have turned on a Republican congressman after his extr ...

Massive Surveillance System in Pa. Town Raises Privacy Concerns (Patrick Walters)

Sept. 10, 2009 -- LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- Horses drawing buggies regularly clop down the roads approaching Lancaster, a peaceful city in the heart of Amish country that had only three murders last yea ...

Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says (Haider Rizvi)

Sept. 10, 2009 -- UNITED NATIONS (Inter Press Service) -- The current economic meltdown will continue for years if the world community does not take firm and coordinated action to regulate the flow of ...

US Poverty Rate Hits 11-Year High as Recession Bites (Reuters)

Sept. 10, 2009 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. poverty rate hit its highest level in 11 years in 2008 as the worst recession since the Great Depression threw millions of Americans out of work, a ...

Shock May Put Global Relapse Odds as High as 1-in-3, Roach Says (Bloomberg)

By Bloomberg News Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Odds of a U.S.-led “relapse” into global recession may be as high as one-in-three if any shock to the world’s biggest economy adds to depressed consumer dema ...

We’ve become our own predators…. (Jason Miller)

“As we devour them to satiate our appetite for power and wealth, we devour ourselves, making for a bizarre act of self-cannibalization.” By Jason Miller 9/9/09 Our dominant culture, in which I fully ...

Whose Economic Recovery? (Danny Schechter)

Has The US Economy Really Been Pulled Back From The Brink? By Danny Schechter September 10, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- President Obama's highly anticipated health care speech started on a t ...

Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: 9/11 and Beyond (Alan Sabrosky)

Alan Sabrosky September 10, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- The attacks on September 11, 2001, have been a defining moment for America. The political and psychological impact on Americans of a c ...

Historic Errors Made In 9/11 Aftermath (Haroon Siddiqui)

Eight years later there is more terrorism in the world and we are paying the price in Afghanistan By Haroon Siddiqui September 10, 2009 "The Star" -- Eight years after 9/11, we know that: The war on ...

Just Another Joe Wilson to Love (Mary Lyon)

By Mary Lyon I love Joe Wilson. Again! Which sets me up here and now to make sure a critical distinction is made. Joe Wilson is not Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador whom I really do love for the ...