THE UNITED NATIONS APPOINTS AN ALLEGED WAR CRIMINAL IN KOSOVO

The United Nations in a recent [2000] report submitted to Secretary General Kofi Annan now concedes that the Kosovo Protection Force (KPC) (inaugurated under UN auspices in September 1999) has been involved in "criminal activities-killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and hate speech"

CUBA: OPEN-ARMED POLICY

One of the glaring differences in US/Cuban leadership is that after Katrina, Cuban Doctors and Emergency Medical Technicians organized to go down to New Orleans to help but the USA rejected the offer, even though, our resources were stretched paper thin, economically and strategically, by the twin disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan.

VETS BREAK SILENCE ON WAR CRIMES

U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.

CLINTON FACES KENYA CATTLE FINE OVER OBAMA PHOTO

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan elders may impose a fine on U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, payable in livestock, after a photo of her rival Barack Obama in robes dragged their people into the race for the White House.

WHAT MAKES FINNISH KIDS SO SMART?

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don't start school until age 7.

HOUSE REPUBLICAN BLASTS BUSH ADMINISTRATION 'STONEWALLING'

That rather damning criticism comes not from a liberal opponent of the Bush Administration, but from one of its most right-wing supporters in Congress, California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.

TURKISH TROOPS PULL OUT OF IRAQ

February 29, 2008 - Turkey says its troops have been withdrawn from northern Iraq after an offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels.

SECURITY CODE EASY HACKING FOR UVA STUDENT

A University of Virginia graduate student and two fellow hackers say they have cracked the encryption code that protects billions of credit cards, subway passes and security badges.

POTENTIAL DEAL COULD ASSURE RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY

While it's still possible, we need to let the House hear from us to say we don't want retroactive immunity. Not in the Senate passed bill. Not in any other. Use the contact tool from CREDO Action to tell your rep to oppose retroactive immunity, no matter how it's presented to them.

CLINTON-OBAMA PLANS WOULD KEEP US MERCENARIES, TROOPS IN IRAQ FOR YEARS TO COME

Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not 'rule out' using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009. Despite their antiwar rhetoric, both Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq for many years.

KU KLUX KLAN ENDORSES OBAMA

Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that "crazy ass bitch" as President.

My outburst of laughter began immediately after i confirmed that today is not in April 1st. Time to pimp my article again: I Smell A Rat: the Obama - Sinclair Sex and Drug Scandal -- ZDN

RUN OF BAD DATA ADDS TO DOLLAR’S SLIDE

The dollar fell to new lows Thursday after the run of woeful US data continued with weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter growth and rising unemployment claims.

GOLD HIT $980 AND OIL $103 A BARREL

Gold powered to a new high near $980 an ounce on Friday after crude oil set an all-time high of above $103 a barrel, igniting inflation worries and another round of buying from investors and speculators.

QUAKER TEACHER FIRED FOR CHANGING LOYALTY OATH

California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.

U.S. CITIZENS WILL NEED PERMISSION TO TRAVEL

The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is moving forward to institute a rule that would require all passengers to go through a government review process before boarding any airplane that takes off or lands anywhere with in the United States.

ETHICS CRISIS AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT

Washington may receive more national media coverage for its growing number of ethical lapses, but the problem is worse at the state and local levels where three out of five government workers admitted witnessing violations of ethical standards in the last year.

THE EPA'S MERCURY-LACED HOUSE OF CARDS

In short, mercury is nasty, nasty stuff—and it poses dangers to women who are or may become pregnant, mothers who are nursing, and young children. So you’d think it would be a no-brainer that our government would follow the law—in this case, the Clean Air Act—to get this substance taken care of—quickly.

But of course, that’s not what happened.

AS AFGHANISTAN FAILS, TOP US NEWSPAPERS SWOON OVER HARRY

As the global media's attention focuses on the third in line to the British crown, and the British media's decision to keep silent about his travails, the status of the US mission in Afghanistan has gone almost unnoticed.

HILLARY CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA: HIDDEN IRS TAX RETURNS VS. TONY REZKO

Let's explore two issues of potential unknown downsides for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

BUZZFLASH GOP HYPOCRITE OF THE WEEK

John McCain

Today's McCain Myth: John McCain has not benefited from the FEC's matching funds program.

USS COLE 'ORDERED TO POSITION OFF LEBANESE COAST'

BEIRUT: A US Navy warship has been ordered to take up station off Lebanon's coast as a "show of support" as the standoff between Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government and the opposition continues, the Reuters news agency quoted an official in Washington as saying on Thursday.

BILL CLINTON CONFRONTED IN AUSTIN

Bill Clinton Confronted in Austin

WHAT A MARINE IN IRAQ THINKS OF THE NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY

AGENDA FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN SUMMIT

The next North American Summit is set to be held on April 21-22, 2008, in New Orleans, as a fitting memorial – returning to the location where the state turned its back on the people, literally leaving them to die; and where they now meet to turn their backs once again on the people, leaving them in the dark and their countries near death.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RON PAUL INTERVIEW ON THE FED

Some drastic proposals have called for the federal government to purchase existing mortgages and take upon itself the process of rewriting these and guaranteeing the resulting new mortgages. Aside from exposing the government to tens of billions of dollars of potentially defaulting mortgages, the burden of which will ultimately fall on the taxpayers, this type of plan would embed the federal government even deeper into the housing market and perpetuate instability.

RON PAUL ON IRAQ, IRAN SHIITE AND SUNNI

FBI DOCUMENTS CONTRADICT 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT

Alleged Hijacker Booked On Post-9/11 Flights

Astounding FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report as CIA veteran Robert Baer calls for investigation to be re-opened

JOHN MCCAIN’S CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS

The charitable contributions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have received a fair amount of press scrutiny. The same is not true of John McCain, which is somewhat surprising since he is essentially the sole donor to the John and Cindy McCain Foundation, and his wife is its chairman and president.

GLOBAL SHORTAGE OF METALS LOOMING

Peak oil has lots of press, but what about peak copper? Peak zinc? Peak gold?

THE U.S. DOLLAR IS BEING DESTROYED

The global economy is falling apart all around us. We can expect a continued rise in the price of gold and silver as it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Federal Reserve, the U.S. government and even Alan Greenspan are doing everything they can to destroy the value of the U.S. Dollar.

THE OBAMA CRAZE

Like most, I know he gave a stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. I know he defeated Alan Keyes in the Illinois Senate race; although it wasn't much of a contest (Keyes was living in Maryland when he announced). Recently, I started looking into Obama's voting record, and I'm afraid to say I'm not just uninspired: I'm downright fearful. Here's why:

CORPORATE LOBBYISTS DRIVE MCCAIN’S CAMPAIGN

Sitting at McCain’s elbow on the bus, churning out these platitudes, is Charles Black, head of BKSH & Associates, with 42 corporate clients including Philip Morris, General Motors, JP Morgan, AT&T and United Technologies. Black is so deeply entwined with tobacco companies he is known in Washington as “Mr. Tobacco.”

75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE (OTHER) REICHSTAG FIRE

75 years ago today Hitler and the Nazis blamed the burning of the Reichstag (parliament building in Berlin) on (communist) terrorists, despite the lack of evidence, and less than a month later the Enabling Act was passed, giving Hitler dictatorial powers. It didn't take much longer after 9/11 for the Bush gang to get their Patriot Act. Anyone who refuses to see the parallels must be deaf, dumb and blind.

FOOD SHORTAGES LOOM AS WHEAT CROP SHRINKS AND PRICES RISE

THE world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years.

CORPORATE FASCISM’S GREATEST ALLY

Few political animals are more nauseating and deleterious to liberty than the good liberal who’ll vote for any democrat to avoid “giving” the election to a republican. To boot, this fear bunny has been brainwashed to irrationally demonize the very world “conspiracy”, a word which connotes the actual bedrock of political reality. The behavior, and lack of backbone branching from these limbs is allowing the perpetuation and consolidation of the corporate fascist state. By lining up in lock-step behind phony alternatives and mock-dissent, the liberal democrat is the greatest ally to this corporate fascism.

FRIDAY: 7 IRAQIS KILLED, 4 WOUNDED; CHRISTIAN ARCHBISHOP ABDUCTED

In northern Iraq, Turkey began its troop pullout just in time for the weekly prayer day. Meanwhile, a Christian archbishop was kidnapped in Mosul. In Baghdad, an execution order was signed for "Chemical Ali" who killed tens of thousands of Kurds while working as his cousin Saddam Hussein's right hand man. Overall, at least seven Iraqis were killed and another four were wounded during very light violence.

BARACK OBAMA'S ISRAEL BOND

Obama said he has long been a "stalwart friend of Israel's," believing the country to be one of the United States' "most important allies in the region," and even going as far as to call the security of Israel "sacrosanct."

There cannot be a thinking human being that has researched the decades of torture flung upon Palestinians by Israel that could possibly support this Zionist torture machine. What is with this country's unwavering support of these reckless bastards without a conscience?

Obama and anyone else that supports Israel needs to spend 2 weeks in the Gaza strip and listen to the stories of children who are too afraid to turn on their bedroom lights when doing their homework for fear they'll be targeted and end up dead like their mothers/brothers/friends/neighbors/etc.. -- ZDN

SIX-MONTH-OLD BABY KILLED BY ISRAEL ATTACKS

Disgusting that this zionist entity is allowed to murder and get away with not a word of condemnation from those "civilised" nations.

ISRAELI WAR MINISTER THREATENS PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST

Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has provoked outrage after threatening Palestinians with a "holocaust," but the same media who obsessed about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "wipe Israel off the map" misquote are scurrying to defend Vilnai's disgraceful comments.

ISRAEL, US SIGN HOMELAND SECURITY PACT

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter and his US counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, signed a joint memorandum in Washington DC on Wednesday evening, setting a series of goals and terms for security collaboration between the two nations.

POLICE PUT DOWN DISTURBANCE AT HIGH SCHOOL

"You should have seen the way they were doing those children," said one of the witnesses who appeared on the scene as police were making arrests. "What I saw when I came here was people grabbing children by the hair, slamming them on the ground, beating them." Some students even said police punched a pregnant girl in her stomach.

DOES MCCAIN REALLY ‘KNOW BETTER’?

AQI can’t “take a country,” and certainly can’t “take” Iraq. McCain hasn’t shown up for work in a while, so perhaps he’s missed some briefings, but the reality is AQI has no real allies in Iraq. The Kurds have no use for them, the Shiite majority has no use for murderous Sunni jihadists running around their country, and Sunnis have been rising up against AQI since before the “surge” even began. If we left, al Qaeda would “take” Iraq? Not in this reality, it won’t.

UPDATE ON THE FREE(LOADER) STATE

The Baltimore city government has sued Wells Fargo for foreclosing on home loans in which the borrowers have reneged on their payments. Meanwhile, the same city government is busy foreclosing on homes in the city whose owners are delinquent on their water bills.

PASTOR JOHN HAGEE ENDORSES MCCAIN: BILL DONOHUE FREAKS OUT

This is worse. . . . If someone said to me: who is the biggest anti-Catholic bigot in the evangelical community, I would say: hands down, John Hagee.

YOU THINK YOU ARE FREE?

Watching old movies makes me sad. I'm inevitably reminded of a kindlier, gentler world without cameras that spy on populations, where overseas travelling was pleasurable and privacy was an individual's right.

MCCAIN SILENT ON FORECLOSURE CRISIS

McCain’s website promises “bold solutions” (like maybe printing up more of the hundred dollar bills shown for his promised tax cuts) but he’s not bold enough to mention either the banking crisis or the rapidly deteriorating housing market.

COMMUNITY FACES $10 MIL. LAWSUIT FOR ALLEGED POLICE BRUTALITY

The video, from a Cookeville police cruiser, shows the arrest of a Putnam County man.

A Cookeville officer is seen allegedly placing drugs on the man, Carlos Ferrell, before arresting him.

WELCOME TO THE NORTH AMERICAN ARMY

With no warning, a significant military agreement was signed by the chief Armed Forces commanders of both the U.S.A. and Canada on Feb. 14. The agreement allows the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency.

USDA SHUTS DOWN CONGRESSIONAL AUDIT

The auditors were seeking information for an ongoing audit on Agriculture's office of civil rights and its handling of discrimination complaints. Specifically, they were investigating allegations that the department had previously provided false information for the audit.

1984 AND AFTER: CIA ALLEGEDLY FUNDS BIN LADEN’S MAIN CHARITY FRONT

Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), also known as Al-Kifah, is Osama bin Laden’s main charity front in the 1980s. The US government will later call it the “precursor organization to al-Qaeda” (see Late 1984).

WHO SPEAKS FOR ISLAM?

* Muslims and Americans are equally likely to reject attacks on civilians as morally unjustifiable.

* Large majorities of Muslims would guarantee free speech if it were up to them to write a new constitution AND they say religious leaders should have no direct role in drafting that constitution.

* Muslims around the world say that what they LEAST admire about the West is its perceived moral decay and breakdown of traditional values - the same answers that Americans themselves give when asked this question.

* When asked about their dreams for the future, Muslims say they want better jobs and security, not conflict and violence.

* Muslims say the most important thing Westerners can do to improve relations with their societies is to change their negative views toward Muslims and respect Islam.

Hmmm….doesn’t sound like the bloodthirsty savages bent on destroying this country, does it? Will this survey or its findings ever make it onto American airwaves? Nope, I don’t think so either. It’s so much easier to wallow in ignorance and bigotry.

WATERBOARDING: COMPANY USED IT TO "MOTIVATE" EMPLOYEES

A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

TALIBAN CALLED 'GROWING THREAT' IN AFGHANISTAN

February 28, 2008 - Washington, DC - New U.S. intelligence assessments cast doubt on President Bush's recent contention that Taliban and al-Qaida forces in Afghanistan are "on the run."

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2005: US USES LAPTOP EVIDENCE TO CONVINCE IAEA TO RECOMMEND SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN

The Bush administration, as part of its campaign to pressure the IAEA to vote for such a recommendation, briefs the president of Ghana, along with officials from Argentina, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Nigeria, all Security Council members, on its findings on Iran’s nuclear program derived from a laptop computer that contains evidence of Iran’s nuclear experiments

BLOVIATE THIS! AN OPEN LETTER TO BILL O’REILLY

Time and again we’ve watched you bully your victims (or “guests” as you duplicitously refer to them) from your secure little perch high atop the food chain of craven and mendacious propagandists dutifully maintaining the pernicious lies that perpetuate the moral retardation and turpitude of this nation. You are a truly despicable human being. And by the way, Bill, characterizing you as a human being is a sign of our generosity and open-mindedness.

HILLARY DISINFORMATION ABOUT HER FIRST LADY RECORDS IN DEBATE

Judicial Watch sued the National Archives to obtain thousands of documents from Clinton’s tenure as First Lady, including her daily schedules and work as head of the miserably failed and costly White House task force on health care. As a result of one of these lawsuits, the Department of Justice confirmed that the National Archives and Records Administration finished processing 10,000 pages of Hillary’s schedules last month.

HUTTO

America's Family Prison

Did you know that the federal government has not only set up but is also currently operating a prison that holds entire families - including infants, children and nursing and pregnant women?

HOW TO KEEP 100% OF YOUR EARNINGS

Interviews and speeches with noted attorneys, CPAs, jurists, and experts revealing the illegal enforcement of our income tax laws by the IRS and the unconstitutional nature of the Federal Reserve