Buried in the weekly unemployment figures is data that never gets reported in the MSM: The U6 number, an alternative measure of labor underutilization.

Kathlyn Stone

  Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust

  Oct. 6, 2006 -- Just how comfortable are parents having their children, from pre-schoolers through high school, screened for mental illness? How will they respond when, if their child is diagnosed with a mental disorder, he or she is prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs?

  In Indiana, parents of a 15-year-old are suing the school for screening their daughter without their consent.

Photo provided by IFC Baghdad

  Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust

  The Baghdad headquarters of the Iraq Freedom Congress were raided by U.S. troops last week, according to IFC member Amjad Al-Jawhary.

  The IFC, a nonviolent secular resistance movement, condemned the attacks Sept. 7-8, and pledged to continue its peaceful struggle to end the occupation.