The May 31st strike is a follow-up on “Operation Cast” initiated in late December 2008. It is meant to enforce the status of Gaza as a de facto urban prison.

Unaccountable operators are increasingly shaping public policy to suit their own interests, a disturbing trend J.R. Wedel examines in her book Shadow Elite.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has set out plans for an assault on unemployment and invalidity benefits, as the precursor to a broader assault on welfare provision.

Israel, thought to be the Middle East’s only nuclear power, has rejected a new U.N. call to come clean about its secretive nuclear program, calling it a “deeply flawed and hypocritical” act.

Here is a great insight into the way Washington really works, from CNAS’ Richard Fontaine.

A nonprofit organization has recently come up with a Congressional bill designed to stop government censorship of truthful, scientific health claims about natural foods and herbs, and restore free speech to natural health.

Virtually all of the prisoners in Gitmo are guilty of no crimes and were never suspected of any crimes. They are there only for the purpose of fueling hatred against the United States.

A leading Louisiana wetlands scientist was fired for speaking the truth.

While not all of the changes are bad, the State of Texas is taking a huge leap backwards by changing school text books to support to support a fascist ideology.

Courtesy of Economic Policy Journal we now know that the majority of American states are currently insolvent, and that the US Treasury has been conducting a shadow bailout of at least 32 US states.

It is a paradox that the current spate of blood-letting in Jamaica’s capital, Kingston, has been provoked by the attempt to extradite a wanted man to the United States.

A military directive authorizes sending Special Ops troops to friendly and hostile nations.

On 17 May, Iran announced a joint declaration with Turkey and Brazil on a nuclear fuel swap deal. But less than 24 hours after, the Obama administration moved swiftly to sabotage the deal.

The explosion of oil destroying our gulf coast now is at best a tragic accident, at worst an act of war.

A number of activists opposed to US military bases were recently here in New York for the International Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World.

Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera, and others have been intimidated to shut their cameras off. That’s touched off a legal controversy.

Besides being a very unhealthy beverage, Coca-Cola has another dirty secret; It has been involved in a series of kidnappings involving union leaders and organizers at its Colombia bottling facilities.

Canada’s northern peoples called for a moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Canadian Arctic until safeguards are in place to avoid a spill like the one soiling the US Gulf Coast.

Arctic region development was discussed at an international conference held in Copenhagen.

More people are attempting to stand up to the bully Israel by trying to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza.

Technology can help make government more transparent and efficient.

A Russian town famed for its crusades against swearing and easy morals is trying to ban heavy metal concerts arguing that they are “satanic” and “ideologically destructive.”

While Communism threatened indigenous peoples’ traditional activities, Russia was also “naïve” to think indigenous peoples would be able to deal with the new capitalist economy.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is miffed by the quiet announcement earlier this month of a military agreement between Canada and Denmark. ITK says Canadian Forces should have consulted Inuit first.

Using primarily news casts and historical footage, this shocking full length movie will change the way you look at our leadership within America’s government and military today.

More than half of the world’s population is urban, and cities often amplify many of the problems we face as a planet. Luckily, people are joining forces to re-imagine how we design and live in cities.

If scientists can now easily alter the human DNA and make the Human Genome Project look like homework that 15th century kids did with an abacus, imagine the dystopia of terrifying consequences.

Life without parole (LWOP) sentences condemn children to death behind bars, prevent their rehabilitation in society, and violate international laws and norms that prohibit treating them like adults.

Washington’s response to the BP oil disaster has only made matters much, much worse. It seems that Obama works for BP, not America.

Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database.

One of America’s national organizations fighting against illegal immigration is announcing that 17 states are now filing versions of Arizona’s SB 1070 law or its immigration laws.

Thanks to a $17.3 million grant from the federal government, Washington education officials will soon be able to track students from pre-school to college and their first job.

Another video of American soldiers’ atrocities in Iraq has surged up on the internet. Only this time, they “lit” up one, defenseless, old Iraqi.

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a claim that the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) violates the human right to a private life, saying it is just proportionate.

When a “one percenter” hears the word “patriot” or sees a flag or bible, he cringes, knowing a scoundrel is afoot. If a new world is built, it is the one percent that will do it.

Scott West, a former top investigator at the Environmental Protection Agency, said that the US government had told BP in principle that “it can do whatever it wants and won’t even be held accountable.”

Voters sent a clear message on Tuesday: They don’t like the way Washington works.

After Monsanto dumped contaminated seeds on Haiti, farmers there have vowed to burn the seeds rather than plant them.

The question of whether an oil-rich sliver of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should be designated as wilderness to protect it from development by oil companies drew differing opinions.

Politicians on both sides of the Yukon legislature say they want tougher regulations for oil drilling in the Beaufort Sea, off the territory’s northern coast.

Macleans sends Brian Bethune to task by interviewing Arctic historian Shelagh Grant on why Canada can’t protect its far North.

The Monell Center and partner institutions reported that workers exposed to the mixture of toxic airborne chemicals after 9/11 had a decreased ability to detect odors and irritants two years after the exposure.

Obama has ordered or authorized the murder of hundreds of innocent women and children by drone attacks and was recently joking about it. Is he insane or just plain evil?

ICE agents who blew the whistle on fellow law enforcers’ fraud, waste and abuse faced swift retaliation from their agency.

Ralph Nader’s take on Elena Kagan

The sinister forces in control of the U.S. federal govt. stage terrorist attacks to push America into a corporate fascist police-state.

The current debate over offshore drilling could have been prevented if congressional Dems had stepped up in ’08.

The film “Voices of a Never Ending Dawn,” is a true story of a regiment of U.S. soldiers sent to arctic Russia in 1918 to fight the Bolsheviks, so Russia would be persuaded to rejoin the war against Germany.

The U.S. war industry was dealt a minor blow when Maryland passed a law that restores a small measure of high school students’ right to privacy from Military recruiters.

The BP oil spill could have been easily prevented if Bush, Cheney and other politicians hadn’t been owned by the oil industry.

Mexicans are desperately trying to shut down a Swiss owned toxic waste plant which is making them sick.

The world is pleading with Obama to allow the U.S. to join the international ban on land-mines. Land mines kill and maim thousands each year, mostly children.

Washington is desperately trying to conceal the true scope and ultimate cost of the BP oil disaster as it scrambles to cope with an environmental disaster of unfathomable proportions.

A controversial new state anti-immigration law has many American Indians alarmed that tribal sovereignty has been violated, with the looming possibility that individual liberties will be threatened.

Not only was BP greed and incompetence to blame for their oil rig disaster but U.S. govt. corruption is also to blame.

The media industry ignores the fact that people who share media files also buy media and a new study proves it.

As the media focuses on the fact that the suspect in the failed Times Square bomb plot is a Pakistani Muslim. What about the man who first noticed the smoke rising from the SUV?

Due to massive public outcry, the U.S. FCC has reversed its earlier position to let big Telecoms control the Internet and has announced its new policies.

With the big banks continuing their efforts to destroy the U.S. economy, some U.S. states are considering setting up their own banks.

The bogus non-profit organization “Reporters without Borders” serves the interests of the CIA and corporate criminals, not journalists.

The Internet as we know it was dealt another serious blow that could turn out to be fatal.

Yes, we could. No kidding. We really could withdraw our massive armies, now close to 200,000 troops combined, from Afghanistan and Iraq.

America has long been responsible for atrocities committed against the citizens of the Philippines in the name of corporate profits and just plain evil.

Ernst Zundel was recently released from prison and talks about his life as an international political prisoner.