Stocks, Euro Tumble on Greece Debt Concern (Stuart Wallace and Rita Nazareth)

Sept. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks sank, while the euro slid to a ten-year low versus the yen and a six-month low against the dollar, as concern grew about Greece’s debt crisis. European bank and so ...

They Died in Vain; Deal With It (Ray McGovern)

Ray McGovern Aug. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as “heroes” the 30 American and eight Afghan troops killed Aug. 6 west of ...

U.S. Stock Futures, Oil Plunge on U.S. Debt-Rating Downgrade; Gold Surges (Rita Nazareth and Nikolaj Gammeltoft)

Aug 7, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Equity futures sank, signaling the market may extend its worst slump since the bull market began in 2009, while oil slid as the loss of the U.S.’s top credit rating fueled ...

A Secret War in 120 Countries: The Pentagon’s New Power Elite (Nick Turse)

Aug. 4, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you’re done... for the day. Without the knowledge of the American ...

The United Loony Bin Of America (Sherwood Ross)

Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- “Have we as a nation gone mad, waging war in the Persian Gulf while society crumbles?” Seymour Melman asked rhetorically when I interviewed him for The Pr ...

Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)

Aug. 1, 2011 -- TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March ...

The Fed Audit (Sen. Bernie Sanders)

July 21, 2011 (sanders.senate.gov) -- The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the United States provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loa ...

BOOKS: Postmodern Imperialism -- Geopolitics and the Great Games. By Eric Walberg (Jim Miles)

Postmodern Imperialism -- Geopolitics and the Great Games. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., 2011. July 17, 2011 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- The many stages of imperialism a ...

Next Up: Pakistan -- Ominous signs of a major new war (Justin Raimondo)

July 11, 2011 (AntiWar.com) -- I see someone besides myself has noticed all the “leaking” going on in the upper echelons of Washington over our rocky relationship with Pakistan. Suddenly Islamabad is ...

Yemen Continues to Inspire Amid Great Odds (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 6, 2011 -- The Yemeni people are unrelenting in their demands for democracy. Millions continue to stage rallies across their country in a display of will that is ...

Torture Crimes Officially, Permanently Shielded (Glenn Greenwald)

July 1, 2011 (Salon.com) -- In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder -- under continuous, aggressive prodding by the Obama White House -- announced that three categories of individuals responsib ...