US Top Court Refuses to Hear Guantanamo Wiretap Case (Agence France Presse)

A member of the US military mans the guard post before sunrise at Camp Delta. (AFP) Oct. 4, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a plea by 23 lawyer ...

War (on drugs) is over (John Sinclair)

Sept. 29, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Detroit Metro Times) -- Highest greetings from Amsterdam. My name is John Sinclair and I've been a marijuana legalization activist ever since I founded Detroit LEMAR (LEg ...

EFF: Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications (Seth Schoen)

Sept. 27, 2010 (Electronic Freedom Foundation) -- The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including ...

The Triumph of Evil (Prof. John Kozy)

Above painting by Claudia Markovich at ClaudiaM.com Sept. 3, 2010 (Global Research) -- Modern societies have justified their adoption of criminal activities by claiming that such techniques are neces ...

Labor Day and the Easter Bunny (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2010 -- Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday in America that’s come to be as meaningless as the Easter bunny. It is a holiday that mill ...

Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 2, 2010 -- Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book -- or any piece of writing for that matter ...

Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law (William Fisher)

Aug. 31, 2010 -- NEW YORK (Inter Press Service) -- Two of the nation's most influential human rights organisations have filed a lawsuit challenging the government's authority to carry out "targeted k ...

BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)

Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...

Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ter ...

The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous (Glenn Greenwald)

Aug. 9, 2010 (Cato Unbound) -- It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less und ...

Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and ...