By on March 31, 2009
The second major terror attack in Pakistan within a month has ended with Pakistani storming the police academy. An estimated 20 have been reported killed, including 11 police officers
Posted in Current Affairs
By on March 31, 2009
Tucked away on page 15 of a recent report, writes the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, comes evidence that the British government is using a systematic program of torture in its ‘War on Terror’
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on March 31, 2009
The current financial crisis began with the collapse of U.S. mortgages giant Freddie Mac. But guess who was on its board of directors in the run-up to the crisis? None other the White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel! Is he leading us down the same path?
Posted in Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway
By on March 30, 2009
A day after President Obama focused on Pakistan’s role in the ‘War on Terror’ militants attack a NATO supply terminal near the northwest city of Peshawar
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on March 30, 2009
In a measure of how rapidly it is advancing, China’s state workshop is to produce 100 high-speed trains with speeds of 350km/h – without any foreign parts or assistance
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on March 30, 2009
America’s new economic reality means that from coast-to-coast shantytowns are springing-up filled with the homeless and the unemployed
Posted in Economics
By on March 30, 2009
The U.S. economy has passed the point of on return, writes Robert Morley
Posted in Economics
By on March 29, 2009
In what appears to be covert preparations for mass graves, a usually quiet U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery has been unusually active recently
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on March 29, 2009
Mark Glenn asks: is Israel’s honesty over Gaza a matter of marketing? Like a convicted murderer appearing before the court on sentencing day with a fresh shave, combed hair, new suit and begging the court for mercy, saying he has “found Jesus”?
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on March 29, 2009
Or are Giesbrecht’s abductors in the pay of UK/US intelligence and did they mastermind her kidnapping in order to discredit the Taliban? After all we now know that “Muslim extremists” didn’t mastermind 9/11. See Taimur’s response in the readers comments
Posted in Afghanistan
By on March 29, 2009
If the US government is forced to print money to cover the high costs of its wars and bailouts, things could fall apart very quickly. Interview with Professor Igor Panarin
Posted in Economics
By on March 29, 2009
Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Kruman says the new financial bailout plan is so disappointing that it fills him “with a sense of despair”
Posted in Economics
By on March 28, 2009
The sort of incident that doesn’t get too much coverage in the mainstream media
Posted in Unreported News
By on March 28, 2009
Two blistering attacks launched on Gordon Brown in the European Parliament become huge Internet hits. Leaving the mainstream media to either ignore them or take its cue from the Internet’s independent news
Posted in The Media
By on March 28, 2009
Special instructions for the “most moral army in the world”: open fire on Red Cross rescuers
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on March 28, 2009
“The Iranians have finished developing surface-to-surface missile which can carry a nuclear warhead,” the head of Israel’s military intelligence said on Wednesday, adding they will have the capacity to build a nuclear bomb within a year
Posted in Iran
By on March 28, 2009
No one here foresees bread lines or former BoA executives selling apples off of a push cart but the banks are never going to be the same again, writes a Beltway insider
Posted in Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway
By on March 28, 2009
We’re fools in a comedy about the marriage of greed and stupidity. And the worst part is that we’re still in denial — we still think this is some kind of accident, not the work of Wall Street financiers whom we allowed to gang-rape the American Dream
Posted in Economics