Listen to the final moments of the daring rescue efforts of the New York City Fire Department operating in the South Tower of the World Trade Center moments before it suddenly exploded into oblivion. This is the biggest conflict of evidence of all: Either there were emergency teams operating in […]
While the Supplemental Poverty Measure announced by the Commerce Department on Tuesday is a step in the right direction, it still is not enough to accurately defining poverty in the United States. The current official measure of poverty is unreliable and invalid, in opinion of some critics. [youtube]8c_ZOPmJNXE[/youtube]
Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town. Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get […]
The report, by the Washington-based New America Foundation, will fuel growing criticism of the use of unmanned drones in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who use Pakistan as a base for attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan. Critics say their use not only takes innocent lives, but amounts […]
We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, […]
Pentagon shooting suspect in custody, second person suspected In the United States, the suspect in the Pentagon shooting has died from his wounds. The suspect, an American, opened fire on two police officers at the subway entrance to the Defense Department. He was critically wounded by the officers. Law enforcement […]
Alan Hart warns that unless President Barack Obama finds the courage “to require Israel to be serious about peace” with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours, then we could face the real prospect of the Zionist state ethnically cleansing its Arab citizens, expelling the Palestinians from the occupied West Bank […]