Amnesia as a Way of Life: WikiLeaks Amid the 'Careless People' (Phil Rockstroh)

Dec. 2, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the U.S. Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, until ...

Nigeria 'To Charge Dick Cheney' over Halliburton, KBR Bribery Case (M.J. Smith)

Cheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFPCheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFP) Dec. 2, 2 ...

WikiStink: The holes in this narrative are becoming obvious (Susan Abulhawa)

The holes in this narrative are becoming obvious. (Photo: Via FP) Dec. 1, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- More than a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, marked "secret," "confidential," or "unclas ...

Fed May Be `Central Bank of the World' After UBS, Barclays Aid (Bradley Keoun and Hugh Son)

Dec. 2, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve data showing UBS AG and Barclays Plc ranked among the top users of $3.3 trillion from emergency programs is stoking debate on whether U.S. regulators bear ...

Wikileaks’ next target: A major US bank (Sahil Kapur)

Nov. 30, 2010 (Raw Story) -- He's been relentlessly revealing some of the U.S. government's most deeply held secrets, but for his next act, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he will expose the co ...

Fabricating Terror (Paul Craig Roberts)

Nov. 30, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Oregon. The Associated Press ...

The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger (Paul Craig Roberts)

Nov. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the ...

Obama Administration Weighs Indefinite Detention (Dina Temple-Raston)

Nov. 26, 2010 (NPR) -- It is starting to look like the president who campaigned on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay may end up doing something wholly different: signing a law that would pave the ...

Report: Body Scanner Makers Doubled Lobbying Cash Over 5 Years (Diana Sweet)

Nov. 23, 2010 (Raw Story) -- Multimillion dollar government contracts don't just happen. Ask the companies with the big government contracts to supply Body-scanning machines to U.S. airports how much ...

TSA Gestapo Empire (Paul Craig Roberts)

Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 tol ...

Bush Lies - Not Just To Us, But To Himself (Ray McGovern)

Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Why should George W. Bush have been "angry" to learn in late 2007 of the "high-confidence" unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that I ...