9/11 Workers Reach Claims Deal

FoxNewsChannel   |   March 15, 2010 - Is $657 million settlement enough?

Wars sending U.S. into ruin.

TheRealNews | March 14, 2010 - Eric Margolis: Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford

The Road to Guantanamo.

Starring: Farhad Harun, Arfan Usman, Rizwan Ahmed, Waqar Siddiqi, Shahid Iqbal Directed by: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross 95 minutes, UK (2006), In this compelling docudrama by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, the 'Tipton Three' narrate their own experiences in America's controversial offshore detention camp The Road To Guantánamo opens with archive footage of George W Bush, flanked by a stern-faced Tony Blair, declaring his certain knowledge that all the detainees held in Guantánamo are "bad people". 

House slaves in China.

6 March 2010 - China's real-estate boom has further deepened the divide between the haves and the have-nots as the country's middle class struggles with soaring property prices.

Wen Jiabao, China's premier, has pledged measures to curb speculation in the country's housing market and rein in soaring prices. But with real estate accounting for 10 per cent of GDP, changes may not be welcomed by investors.

How Western anti-Muslim bigotry became respectable.

March 04, 2010 ; TheRealNews - The historic roots of a newly resilient ideology

The historic roots of a newly resilient ideology   PART  1:

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US House votes killing of Armenians as 'genocide'

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 | PressTV

Members of the Turkish Parliament attend a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2010, on the Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

US lawmakers have voted to brand the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as "genocide," ignoring fierce opposition from Turkey.

Despite fierce opposition to the move from Turkey and the White House, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the symbolic resolution by the slimmest of margins, 23 votes to 22, setting the stage for the bill to be put before the full House of Representatives, AFP reported.

America versus free speech.

March 03, 2010 | ALjazeera Riz Khan - Washington always claims that one of its top foreign policy initiatives is to spread democracy and freedoms around the world. But a recent bill in the US Congress has many wondering if the US wants to become one of the world's biggest censors of media freedoms. In early December the US House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming majority to pass a bill punishing Arab TV stations that engage in "anti-American incitement to violence". The bill - known as House Resolution 2278 - has to pass many stages before it becomes law, but it has shocked many for contradicting American support for free speech.So, what are the implications of such a law for the concept of free speech?

Organiser of Darkmarket fraud website jailed.

Bank details and card  information was on sale  for just a few pounds Friday, 26 February 2010 | BBC News - A man who created a website trading in stolen financial information linked to tens of millions of pounds in losses has been jailed for nearly five years. Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, founded Darkmarket, a "Facebook for fraudsters" where criminals could buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins. The site was shut down in 2008 after an FBI agent infiltrated it, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide.

Man Arrested Over Twitter! in UK

Frustrated air passenger arrested under Terrorism Act after Twitter joke about bombing airport

19th January 2010 | mail online - A man was arrested and held in police cells for seven hours as a suspected terrorist after making a joke on Twitter about blowing his local airport sky high.

Paul Chambers, 26, tapped out the comment to amuse friends because his planned trip to Ireland was under threat due to heavy snow at Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster.

Birth Control Pill creator regrets population decline

Birth Control Pill creator regrets population decline. A chemist who led to the invention of the birth control pill says he regrets the demographic catastrophe that has resulted from people using the contraceptive device to separate reproduction from sexuality.

Carl Djerassi, the 85-year-old Austrian chemist who was one of three whose formulation of synthetic hormones paved the way for the pill, wrote an opinion piece in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard lamenting the way the pill has been used.

Blood Oil & US Empire

February 19, 2010  |  Blood Oil & US Empire - Ashley Smith, Adaner Usmani, Glen Ford at the New England United Antiwar Conference. Filmed by Paul Hubbard on 1-30-10 at MIT, Boston MA.

Bush's War, Obama's War ... and the 'War on War'

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are following different trends, as shown in the chart that illustrates this text. George Bush, who initiated the two, had a strong preference for Iraq. It went all wrong. He completed his term of office, leaving both in a water bath, except in speeches. Barack Obama says he will leave Iraq in the next year, but has radicalized in Afghanistan. Neither will that work out, as is already beginning to show with the ostentatious Operation Moshtarak.

Obama after 1 year :

Pulitzer Laureate: Obama Is A Brand Of The Corporate State

February 14, 2010 | Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.

Kikis Petronas - Pemborosan, Penyelewengan & Pembasiran.

Russian ice dance sparks Aboriginal anger.

By Maggie Hendricks

Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (pic) , the favorites for ice-dancing gold in Vancouver, wowed the crowds with their routine at the European Championships. They sit in the lead after their original dance, a tribute to Australian Aborigines.

Except, Aboriginal leaders don't see it as a tribute. They don't really see how it has anything to do with their culture at all.

"They have got the whole thing wrong," said Stephen Page, artistic director of the respected indigenous group, the Bangarra Dance Company. Page said there were no traditional movements in the routine, the music sounded more like it came from India or Africa than Aboriginal Australia and the body paint looked like "a three-year-old child had drawn it on"... "Probably the elders in the bush would be laughing because they would be saying, 'Look how stupid these fellas are,' " he said.