Many people including myself are perplexed as to how the credit crisis has been allowed to get so bad.  As part of his thesis work at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Jonathan Jarvis has come up with a great visualisation of the events leading up to the downfall of the U.S. economy. Enjoy; The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. ...

By Peter Phillips The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face.  While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantanamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military dominance policy, expanding military budget, and wars of occupa ...

Black Agenda Report tells us that Obama and his predatory banker cronies have a new target of opportunity to raid, what they call "Entitlement Reform" or in other words Medicare and Social Security; which could mean regular people's ruin. Ominously, President Obama is hinting that Medicare and Social Security may be the areas where sacrifices will be made. Editor Bruce Dixon states: "As the Obama administra ...

There's no change to Imperial policy, as President Obama unleashes an unprovoked verbal assault on Venezuela accusing President Hugo Chavez "exporting terrorist activities'. The rhetoric was unusually hostile and threatening and it is also untrue. Hillary Clinton joined in by taking swipes at Venezuela and Bolivia. You can read the full story by clicking on this link: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print/4 ...

Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance By Dr. Peter Phillips, Professor of Sociology and Director of Project Censored The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of th ...

Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance By Peter Phillips The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face.  While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantanamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military d ...

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  February 16, 2009 We are not alone: 'trillions' of planets could be supporting life Mark Henderson, Science Editor, in Chicago Almost every star similar to the Sun probably has a life-harbouring planet like the Earth in orbit around it, a leading astronomer said yesterday. The discovery of hundreds of planets around distant stars in our galaxy suggests that most solar systems have a world like ours that i ...

Israel's recent monstrous attack on Gaza made many in the public express outraged and concern. People used words like 'Genocide' to describe the terrible and disproportionate suffering inflected on Palestinians by the IDF. Politically minded people went further in their actions to do things like organize against further attacks and respond with humanitarian efforts to support the Palestinian people which in ...

An article by Scott Horton describes the revelations of a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard of torture, abuse and ill treatment which include sexual abuse and torture by medical personnel against detainees, brutal beating in the name of preserving discipline and order by cell extraction teams, torturous shackling and positional torture and other forms of ill treatment. This story can be found by clicking o ...