VIDEO: General Batiste against Bush's 'harsh interrogations' bill (CNN)

VcTOPU0_Ipo Retired Major General John Batiste says that redefining the legal definitions in the Geneva Convention Common Article 3 to allow for harsh interrogations will set a standard that puts cap ...

NYPD Reverses Decision, Grants Sept. 19 March Permit To United For Peace & Justice (Kathlyn Stone)

KATHLYN STONE -- World News Trust The New York City Police Department has changed its mind and agreed to issue a permit for a march and demonstration Sept. 19 protesting President Bush's address to t ...

Loving Labor’s Losses: Whoredom Is Optional (Jason Miller)

Jason Miller -- World News Trust Are we not the whores of big business, selling our product for their commercial lust? --Arthur Erickson Sept. 14, 2006 -- When George Bush spoke at a maritime trainin ...

Why I hate America (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Why do you hate America? This is a remarkably easy question to provoke. One might, for instance, expose elements of this nations brutal foreign policy. Ask a single prob ...

Energy predicaments and prospects (John Michael Greer)

By John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Last week’s Archdruid Report post argued that four main trends -- declining energy production, economic breakdown, collapsing public health, and politica ...

Two Axioms of 9/11 (Manuel Valenzuela)

Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust Axiom One: November Fears Sept. 13, 2006 -- With government and corporate media propaganda echoing the traumatic memories of five years ago, from sea to shining ...

Welcome To The Insane Hell Of Fractional-Reserve Banking! (Mogambo Guru)

Richard Daughty, the angriest guy in economics -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2006 -- My sense of humor is gone, joining my hair and youth in Mogambo Heaven, replaced by a sense of panic, and I'm real ...

Is American Democracy Too Feeble To Deal With 9/11? (Paul Craig Roberts)

Paul Craig Roberts -- Information Clearing House Sept. 11, 2006 -- Alexander Hamilton is often portrayed as an early advocate of strong central government. But even Hamilton understood the danger fro ...

Why Blogs? (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust With an innumerable amount of flashy, take-forever-to-load mainstream websites teeming with must-read items about pseudo-people like Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, Bill OReil ...

The Real Pet Goat (Mary Lyon From The Left)

Mary Lyon -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2006 -- So another 3,000 people have now died for a lie. Is that it? What IS it with these conservatives? The needless bloodshed in Iraq, over a pack of lies, ...

Day of Reckoning; America’s Economic Meltdown (Mike Whitney)

Mike Whitney -- Information Clearing House Sept 9, 2006 -- There’s growing concern among economists and market-savvy pundits that the global financial system is hanging by a few well-worn threads tha ...