Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation...Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA...FBI Deputizes Business...ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?...Seizing War Protesters’ Assets...Terrorism
Attacks pictured the leaders of the G20 Summit as opportunists continuously conspiring to rob the American people blind! It makes no sense… just pure loconomics!
Lewis says he used to get away with a mere 10% down payment. Now 40% is required. Banks also are demanding that he set aside six months' worth of mortgage payments, double the amount in boom times.
This - sovereign debt denominated in other than your native currency - is how a nation winds up like Weimar Germany - or Argentina! We must not issue bonds denominated in foreign currency - period.
“If this upsets you, I wonder how George Bush feels,” Mr. Norris wrote. “I assume that Mr. Cox would view your involvement with ‘Loose Change’ much as I do. After all, he served his country as a Republican congressman from Orange County for nearly 20
The trip came as China expands its diplomacy and investment on the whole continent, with an eye on natural resources and developing markets for manufactured goods and even weapons.
Unlike Subprime loans that were more localized to specific regions of the bubble states or lower priced areas, Alt-A loans cut across all socio-economic boundaries and can be found littering some of the most affluent areas in the nation.
Eric Holder was co-chief along with Caroline Kennedy of Obama's vice-presidential selection process and, like Obama, is a fellow alumnus of Columbia University in New York. Holder served as deputy attorney general under former president Bill Clin
Not only is it a astronomical amount of money, its' a complicated cocktail of budgeted dollars, actual spending, guarantees, loans, swaps and other market mechanisms by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other offices of government taken over
A trailer for the new movie was released online on Monday, no doubt fuelling the excitement of Trekkies around the world ahead of the film's release next year. (Trailer at bottom of page)
U.S. home builders have never been as anguished about their industry as they were in early November, with their monthly market index gauge plunging five points to a record low 9, the National Association of Home Builders reported Tuesday. "We ar
Corn is central to agriculture in the United States, where it is grown in greater volumes and receives more government subsidies than any other crop. Between 1995 and 2006 corn growers received $56 billion in federal subsidies, and the annual figure
But they’re saying that they won’t disclose who has received these taxpayer loans, because it could cause a run on the banks, it could cause the market to lose confidence in the institutions that have taken these loans.
The gravity is so strong that all the matter in the star condenses into neutrons, and the resulting stuff is so dense that a teaspoon of it would weigh about a hundred million tons.
The Bush administration on Thursday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark of the beast."
The so-called "sticky" improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, can be quickly tucked under a car bumper, and held in place by magnets. Which means any vehicle in Iraq can now be turned into a car bomb, or an assassination tool. The driver of
This would be an unusual turn of events. Israel has sold arms to Russia in only a few limited instances. And as Ha'aretz notes, Russia supplies weaponry to Israel's arch-enemies, Syria and Iran:
America's top commander in Afghanistan says he doesn't have anything to do with the flurry of U.S. killer drone attacks in the nearby border regions of Pakistan.
Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign. (same coin.... both sides)
she spoke of the threats this country faces, and of the prescriptions offered by Obama, in language that would warm the hearts of neoconservatives (if we had them). She threatened to "obliterate" Iran in response to unprovoked aggression ag
Did President-elect Barack Hussein Obama commit a federal crime in September of this year? Or did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Sele
Investigations ensued. The chiefs of 2 redevelopment agencies were forced out. One of them faces criminal charges. Yet the main revelations came not from any of San Diego’s television and radio stations or its dominant newspaper but from a handful of
"They stuck the demolition notice on our front door," Dong said. "Nobody came to talk with us, there were no negotiations for compensation, no public hearings." For over a decade, Ni has been a prominent rights activist and lawyer
China’s propaganda mandarins are experimenting with a new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens. Important shift for the ruling Communist Party, accustomed to deciding what will be reported and wh
THERE'S a worldwide run on gold coins. Even as the price of the precious metal itself comes under pressure people around the world are demanding so many of the valuable coins that government mints are having difficulty filling orders.