Search results

The group of activists who pushed for an inquiry into the Downing Street documents has raised $6,300 to pay pollsters to raise a question on impeaching President Bush, RAW STORY has learned. Pollster John Zogby, who found that 42 percent of Americans would support impeaching the President were...

Pam Schuffert Germany, Nazi Camps, and MARTIAL LAW USA Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:35 207.200.116.138 Report # 1: The Final Solution and Martial Law -- the Deadly Link Pam Schuffert reporting from Germany One of the purposes of my journey to Germany was to uncover the dark link between "The Final...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday. "We've had to move the international reserves from U.S. banks...

By GARY LEUPP The Roman emperor Trajan reigned from 98 to 117 and brought the empire to its maximum extent. He is generally considered to be one of the “good emperors” who ruled from 96 to 180, and indeed his administration was marked by relative tolerance (towards Christians, for example) and...

by Paul Craig Roberts Capitol Hill Blue, the Washington, D.C., publication that cultivates relationships with White House staffers, reports one White House aide saying, "It's like working in an insane asylum. People walk around like they're in a trance. We're the dance band on the Titanic...

By Dr. Kadhem al-Miqdadi Azzaman, September 29, 2005 And suddenly we hear of a new breed of Iraqi billionaires. Their billions are not the result of toil, hard work or audacious investments. They are the outcome of the new Iraqi way of how to become a billionaire in only six months...

The relentless approach of global feudalism: "In addition to these pragmatic goals, the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the...

The Great Green Scare By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR With nothing much better to do and an unlimited budget to burn, the FBI is turning its mighty inquisitorial arsenal on environmental groups across the country. Even now the feds are scouring green outfits from Moscow, Idaho to Cancer Alley Parish...

International Human Rights Lawyer Points Out Absurdities in Hussein's Legal Defense Dr. Curtis Doebbler, well-respected human rights lawyer and law professor, can't get American media to tell the truth about the legal farce going on in Bagdhad. He claims proceedings against the former Iraqi...

Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group BBC | September 30 2005 How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. As part...

by Danny Schechter Thomas Friedman, the pro-war New York Times wiseman who critics say is angling for a job as "the Mayor of the Middle East," senses that the Iraq war is now in an "endgame." The translation of "endgame" for the uninitiated is this: a deal to make a terrible defeat for...

Stealing the Moment By RALPH NADER Historians like to speak of special times when leaders "seized the moment" to enact or implement their priorities. Giant hurricanes make these "special times," and no one is moving faster to exploit them than the corporate powers. Urged on by the Wall Street...

By WINSLOW T. WHEELER More than three decades ago, argument over the war in Indochina raged among the public and in Congress. Today, opinion polls show real popular dispute about the war in Iraq, but Congress shows no evidence of genuine debate, just some toothless carping. In the early 1970s...

Are you a subject or a civilian? Each has its pros and cons. Subjects bear limited responsibility for the actions of their government but have limited personal freedom. Civilians, on the other hand, have an abundance of personal freedom but must assume responsibility for their their own actions...

Rumsfeld’s disease: A politically-induced biochemical disaster of global proportions Among the many ironies of our modern world is that Gerald Ford awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—America’s highest civilian honor—to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on January 19, 1977. Just a few...

Council Will Vote On Issue Wednesday WDIV Detroit | September 28, 2005 Comment: We see five of these articles every day. It's all part of the corporate takeover of America. They're openly militarizing the police against us. It's a huge tank with a huge price tag. The Detroit Police...

Here

Saying the United States "does not surrender to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain...

OTTAWA (CP) - The chief electoral officer says he might be willing to break the law by sharing the confidential federal voters list if he thought it would help public safety or security. Jean-Pierre Kingsley says the law should be changed to allow him to share the National Register of Electors...

OTTAWA (CP) - David Dingwal, who resigned as head of the Royal Canadian Mint amid controversy, is now being considered for a federal severance package. ADVERTISEMENT The government said it is considering a financial settlement for Dingwall, who stepped down Wednesday after allegations of...