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Allegations FBI and British Intelligence Tortured Kenyan Rendition Victim
(Image: JR / Truthout) According to an August 17 article in The Guardian UK, lawyers representing Omar Awadh Omar, a Kenyan used car salesman who was kidnapped …
Romney Consistently Wrong on Social Security
While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be considered the “reasonable” candidate in the GOP field, his statements on Social Security are just as false and outrageous as any …
The Great Green Technological Revolution Within Reach?
The global community is confronted with the problem that achieving the agreed goal of eradicating poverty will require much more economic progress. But the economic progress of the …
Spain, Beyond the Economic Crisis: The Democratic Crisis
Police hold back protesters as part of the “15-M Movement,” in Madrid, Spain. (Photo: Olmovich) What are Spaniards so angry about? When José Luis …
Women and Communities of Color Could Suffer from the Super 12’s Lack of Diversity
Those of us who waited with baited breath to see which members of Congress would be appointed to the supercommittee of 12 to find $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction …
Why Is President Obama So Anxious to Cut Social Security?
On his tour of the Midwest last week, President Obama again indicated his interest in cutting Social Security. He repeated a proposal that his administration first put forward in …
Para-Business Gone Bananas: Chiquita Brands in Columbia
In March 2007 in a U.S. District Court, Chiquita Brands International pled guilty to one count of “Engaging in Transactions with a Specially-Designated Global Terrorist.”[i] The banana giant confessed to …
Damn It or Fear It, the Forbidden Truth Is There’s an Insurrection in Britain
On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of six or more, who waved me aside. …
NATO’s “Conspiracy” Against the Libyan Revolution
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” …
Standard & Poor’s and the Bilderbergers: All Part of the Plan?
A monitor tracks stocks on the trading room floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 8, 2011. (Photo: Benjamin Norman / The New York Times) …