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BP Oil Spill: White House Not Candid On Amount Or Fate Of The Oil

BP Oil Spill: White House Not Candid On Amount Or Fate Of The Oil

According to a commission appointed by the Obama administration, the White House blocked efforts by independent scientists to give an accurate estimate on how bad the oil spill really was in terms of the amount of oil released in the Gulf of Mexico, and on how much of the oil is actually “gone”. In a […]

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Corporations’ “Right To Privacy” Versus Freedom Of Information Act

Corporations’ “Right To Privacy” Versus Freedom Of Information Act

The Supreme Court is back in session, and has agreed to hear the case Federal Communications Commission V. AT & T. This case, if won by AT & T would be a judicial disaster and could make the Freedom Of Information Act completely toothless by expanding an exemption to disclosure for documents that “invade personal […]

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West-Bank: Palestinian Mosque Torched By Settlers

West-Bank: Palestinian Mosque Torched By Settlers

A West-Bank mosque was set on fire and vandalized with graffiti in Hebrew late Sunday night in what police suspects to be an attack by Israeli settlers in protest of any extension of the settlement freeze. Residents of the village Bayt Fajar, near the city of Bethlehem, said that a group of settlers coming from […]

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Guatemala: US Infected Hundreds With Syphilis In The Late 40’s

Guatemala: US Infected Hundreds With Syphilis In The Late 40’s

Most of us remember the so called “medical” tests conducted by the Nazis “doctors” in the concentration camps. Needless to say, the experiments in question were the worst kind of torture imaginable, and treated human beings like lab rats. However, during the late 1940’s the self described “benevolent” super-power was conducting similar inhuman experiments than […]

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Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility

Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility

By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a […]

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