Anthrax attack on US Congress made by scientists and covered up by FBI, expert says (Sherwood Ross)

Sherwood Ross -- Middle East Times Dec. 11, 2006 -- WASHINGTON -- The terrorists who perpetrated the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely were US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD ...

Report: World Bank Losing War on Poverty (Peter Goodman)

Living Conditions for Millions are Worse by Peter Goodman -- San Francico Chronicle Dec. 8, 2006 -- Despite an intensified campaign against poverty, World Bank programs have failed to lift incomes in ...

Shuttle Discovery To Launch Tonight

Astronauts Head to Launch Pad Space.com Dec. 9, 2006 -- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -– The seven Discovery astronauts have begun a 20-minute ride in their silver ‘Astro Van’ toward Kennedy Space Center’s Pa ...

Air America’s ABC Blacklist: The Real Story (Silver & McChesney)

by Josh Silver and Robert W. McChesney -- FreePress.org Nov. 3, 2006 -- This week we learned that some 90 major corporations demanded that their ads be pulled from radio stations that run Air America ...

Jet with 104 aboard crashes in Nigeria (AP)

By BASHIR ADIGUN -- Associated Press Oct. 29, 2006 -- A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people, including the man regarded as a spiritual leader of Muslims in Nigeria, crashed in a storm Sunday after ...

Rioting youths burn hundreds of cars in France (AP)

Authorities upbeat despite violence marking anniversary of ’05 unrest Oct. 28, 2006 (AP) -- CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- Marauding youths torched hundreds of vehicles overnight and on Saturday in rene ...

Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Oct. 18, 2006 -- Of the four aspects of our deindustrial predicament I outlined in a previous post -– fossil fuel depletion, economic contraction, declining ...

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes n ...

Energy predicaments and prospects (John Michael Greer)

By John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Last week’s Archdruid Report post argued that four main trends -- declining energy production, economic breakdown, collapsing public health, and politica ...

Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off And Heads Toward Space Station (NASA)

(NASA) -- Sept. 9, 2006 -- The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew are on their way to the International Space Station after lifting-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 11:14:55 ...

Climate change caused civilisation, scientist says (Alok Jha)

Alok Jha -- Guardian Unlimited Sept. 8, 2006 -- Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist says. An increase in harsh, arid conditions across the globe ar ...