Grim View of Iraq Dangers in Survey of Journalists

In a newly released survey, American journalists in Iraq give harrowing accounts of their work, with the great majority saying that colleagues have been kidnapped or killed and that most parts of Baghdad are too dangerous for them to visit.

Expert: Both parties cooperate to keep administration crimes secret

"Today, the privilege is used primarily not to keep something secret, but to keep something from being used against the government," Turley went on.

America Heads for the Trash Can of History

Americans are unable to connect their dissatisfaction with the current political leadership with their choice of new leaders. All polls show that Hillary Clinton is far in the lead for the Democratic presidential nomination and Rudy Giuliani is far in the lead for the Republican nomination These are the only two candidates guaranteed to be worse than Bush/Cheney.

Naomi Wolf: America's Fascist Coup Owes Legacy To Bush's Nazi Grandfather

Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America.

US Coup Planned for Venezuela?

The New York Times had a news article about Venezuela in Thursday's edition, but it was about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez saying he would cut diplomatic ties with neighboring Colombia. There wasn't a word about a memo from a CIA operative in Caracas to CIA Director General Michael Hayden, uncovered yesterday, outlining a plan for interfering with a Venezuelan referendum set for Dec. 2, and laying out the steps for instigating and backing a coup.

CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela

[...] an internal CIA memorandum has been obtained by Venezuelan counterintelligence from the US Embassy in Caracas that reveals a very sinister - almost fantastical, were it not true - plan to destabilize Venezuela during the coming days. The plan, titled "OPERATION PLIERS" was authored by CIA Officer Michael Middleton Steere and was addressed to CIA Director General Michael Hayden in Washington.

Domestic Spying, Inc.

Under a proposal being reviewed by Congress, a National Applications Office (NAO) will be established to coordinate how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law enforcement and rescue agencies use imagery and communications intelligence picked up by U.S. spy satellites. If the plan goes forward, the NAO will create the legal mechanism for an unprecedented degree of domestic intelligence gathering that would make the U.S. one of the world's most closely monitored nations.

High-Tech Drones Joining Miami Police Force

MIAMI -- The Miami-Dade police department will begin experimenting with high-tech drones as law enforcement tools beginning next year.

Debates and conventions: How we the people are manipulated by the media

“I watched the debate last night and was so completely disgusted with your system. How can your system allow a private company to hold a debate and then exclude or do a hatchet job on a candidate? It filled me with disgust.”

Rudy Giuliani and his connections to terrorist

COUNTDOWN’s Keith Olbermann is joined by Wayne Barrett of ‘The Village Voice’ to discuss his breaking revelation about Rudy Giuliani and his connections to terrorist.

Giuliani Billed Taxpayers For Trips To See Mistress

As New York mayor Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hid his extramarital affair by charging tens of thousands of dollars in travel and security expenses—to visit his mistress--to obscure city agencies and excluding the trips from his official city schedule.

Rudy Giuliani's Corruption Town hall Meeting

Mayor Rudy Giuliani insults City Workers At Town Hall Meeting June 27 2001. Larry Hanley,President of ATU Local 726,tries to ask then Mayor Rudy Giuliani about an inside deal to grant bus routes to connected private bus companies that contibuted to his campaigns.

McCain blames Rise of Hitler on Ron Paul, Not Invading and Occupying other Countries Branded 'Isolationism'

In a new low of despicable looniness, at the Republican debate in St. Petersburg, John McCain equated those Americans who want to stop militarily occupying Iraq with Hitler-enablers.

CNN: Does Ron Paul Believe in a Conspiracy to Form a North American Union?

Ron Paul outlines the globalist plan to implement a North American Union during the CNN Republican debate.

Nafty business: "Super Corridor" will pave over the heart of America

The push for Interstates 69 and 35 has been brutal, driven by the greed of a few corporations that cowed Congress into funding this boondoggle while also destroying Amtrak and bleeding our railroads and public transportation projects dry. However, it would be unfair to call this "capitalism." The money used to build it is public; thus, it would be closer to the truth to equate this to a Soviet "Five Year Plan." And it would not be too far off the mark to describe America's current political system as a totalitarian corporate state.

Impending Destruction of the US Economy

By focusing America on war in the Middle East, the purpose of which is to guarantee Israel’s territorial expansion, the executive and legislative branches, along with the media, have let slip the last opportunities the US had to put its financial house in order. We have arrived at the point where it is no longer bold to say that nothing now can be done. Unless the rest of the world decides to underwrite our economic rescue, the chips will fall where they may.

A Dollar the Size of a Postage Stamp

Central banks across the globe are trying to figure out how to ditch their dollar reserves without triggering a stampede for the exits. No one wants to see that. But, then, nobody wants to be stuck with vaults full of Uncle Sam's green confetti either. So, the question arises; What is the best way to divest oneself of $5.6 trillion (total USD held overseas) before the Lusitania capsizes?

Centigrade 451: Chertoff Targets Discontent

Every bit as depraved, deranged and demented as he looks, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has enlisted firefighters and emergency responders as his eyes and ears in the fight against discontent in America.

America’s Gulag Goes Before the Court

WASHINGTON—The last time anyone made headlines involving the American penal colony at Guantanamo Bay, it was Mitt Romney, eagerly promising to expand it.

Reviving Habeas Corpus

Michael Ratner: How America is losing Habeas Corpus and the upcoming Supreme Court case to reinstate it

Vast Nazi Archive Opens to Public

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Holocaust historians and for survivors to delve into their own tormented past.

FBI Investigates After Officer Uses Taser On Pregnant Woman

The video shows the woman struggle with the officer, who then takes the child from her and gives the boy to another officer. The first officer then forces the woman down on her stomach, and he then deploys a Taser on her neck.

Readers react to police use of Taser on pregnant driver

When two Seattle police officers and their sergeant decided to arrest a motorist who refused to sign a ticket, the result was a confrontation that only ended after one officer applied a Taser to the woman, who was eight months pregnant at the time.

Blogger Fights for Free Speech in New Jersey

"Litigants don't get a blank check to pry into the private lives of critics when they say things the litigants don't like. The fact that it is the government trying to abuse the discovery process makes this attempted invasion of privacy all the more repugnant."

Dr Steven Jones Why I Doubt the Official 9/11 Story

Dr Steven Jones puts forth scientific research describing why the official story of the events of 9/11 may not be accurate. This was recorded on June 24th 2007 at the Orem Senior Friendship Center.

The Mystery Of The 9/11 Car Bombs

A much underreported aspect of the 9/11 attacks is one that concerns transmissions, sightings, reports and statements alluding to multiple mysterious suspects in different vans packed with explosives that were stopped and detained in New York while the towers were burning and in the aftermath of the attacks.

E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals

Twelve states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, sued the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday for weakening regulations that for two decades have required businesses and industries to report the toxic chemicals they use, store and release.

Judicial Watch Obtains Videotape of Border Patrol Sector Chief Decrying Illegal Immigration Enforcement

"The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop illegal immigrants . . . The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop narcotics . . . or contraband or narcotics . . . the Border Patrol’s mission is not to do any of those things . . . The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop criminals . . . The Border Patrol’s job is to stop terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering this country," Mr. Carrillo stated.

Illegal Immigration Peak Since Terrorist Attacks

A new and alarming study using the latest U.S. Census figures reveals that nearly 6 million illegal immigrants have entered the country in the last seven years, marking the highest period of illegal immigration in U.S. history despite government claims of heightened border security.

October foreclosure filings surge

More than 50,000 lost their homes in October; foreclosure rates expected to rise in 2008 as adjustable-rate mortgages reset.

Sex slavery and Israel’s failure to fight the growing trade

Last year, the United Nations named Israel as one of the main destinations in the world for trafficked women, according to the BBC.

Israel has also been named as an offender in the annual U.S. State Department‘s Trafficking in Persons (Tip) report, which condemned the Jewish state for not fully complying with the “minimum standards” to eliminate sex trafficking.

This is not just an Israeli problem. This thriving business is also well established in the US, Turkey, Europe and other countries. Here is a special PBS Frontline did. -- ZDN

Top Democrat Donor Tries To Bribe Judge

Prosecutors say that Scruggs conspired to pay a Mississippi judge $50,000 to rule in his favor in a lawsuit relating to Hurricane Katrina insurance claims.