Bradley Manning, the suspected WikiLeaks source, is seeking to call several military psychiatrists to testify that he was held in custodial conditions likened to torture against their professional advice. Manning’s defence lawyers have lodged a motion with the military court … Continue reading →

[The great CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow began his famous broadcasts from the rooftops of a London being bombed by The Third Reich by saying "This.......is London." In the pause the explosions of Nazi bombs could be easily heard. So … Continue reading →

By: Manny Jalonschi As a white male I have to admit that any and all aspects of accomplishment in my American life are tinged, dirtied and infected by an undeniable privileged position I’m allotted due to something as random as … Continue reading →

Money for Nothing By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: July 26, 2012 For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are overwhelmingly the result of our ongoing economic crisis. In … Continue reading →

Nationwide building society has blamed human error for an incident that caused more than 700,000 customers using their Visa debit cards to be charged twice – sending 50,000 overdrawn – in the latest fiasco at a big name financial institution. … Continue reading →

The Ecuadorean government is seeking to avert the “evil” of the extradition of Julian Assange to the US, according to a senior legal adviser to the country’s embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has sought sanctuary with a view … Continue reading →

A Baylor University study has found that hate groups are using Facebook to spread their message, attract new followers, and launch racist attacks against Barack and Michelle Obama. More that 20 Facebook groups/pages were analyzed using the keywords hate, Barack … Continue reading →

By THOM PRENTICE We in The United States and around the Global Capitalist Empire are immersed in lies about “Capitalism”; “Wall Street”; “the free market”; “private enterprise”; “the wisdom of the market”; “American free enterprise”; the “private sector” and that … Continue reading →

The American general who led a Nato training mission in Afghanistan opposed an investigation into corruption and “Auschwitz-like” conditions at a US-funded hospital in Kabul for political reasons, US military officers told Congress on Tuesday. [Really good move if The … Continue reading →

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust. As Alan Greenspan said, in 1999, “In virtually all transactions we rely on the word of those with whom we do business.” So what happens to a market … Continue reading →

Alexander Cockburn and I met in the 1980s, when we shared places on a panel in Detroit, where the topic was the latest murders of Catholic priests by Latin American death squads. Alex was talking about the horrors of US … Continue reading →

[This is significant because, first, they were all gun owners, and second, Frank Lutz is the pollster and media message makers of choice -- and has been -- for decades. Luntz said last winter that "Occupy" scared him to death … Continue reading →

Associated Press 6:17 a.m. CDT, July 23, 2012 The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy … Continue reading →