Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)

Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- "If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. We ...

Record 41.8 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps (Michael Krebs)

Oct. 6, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- As the November midterm elections draw closer, the stubborn unemployment rate has pushed a record 41.8 million Americans onto food stamps. Representing an ...

Student badges equipped with tracking devices (Tiffany Craig)

Oct. 1, 2010 -- SANTA FE (WKOU) -- Students in Santa Fe have to wear ID badges to class, complete with a built-in tracking device. The Smart Badge program started this school year, and is getting mix ...

BOOKS: Canada and Israel -- Building Apartheid. By Yves Engler (Jim Miles)

Canada and Israel -- Building Apartheid. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Canada. 2010. Oct. 5, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- While much is made of U.S. support of Israel, its unstinting rhetori ...

One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)

Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, a ...

BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)

Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...

Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and ...

Damn That Dick Nixon! (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 19, 2010 -- We all know in the long history of our great nation that truly the most vile and wicked President to ever hold the keys to the Oval Office was Ric ...

New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship (Andrew Gavin Marshall)

The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part 3 This is the third and final part of the series, "The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom." Part 1: The Global Political A ...

Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives: Efficient Killing, Profits and Human Rights (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 7, 2010 -- Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International. The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and chi ...

'Breaking News' is a matter of perspective (Mickey Z)

Where are the headlines about my top story? My mom's illness is big news but not one newspaper, website, or TV show is covering it. Why can't anyone in the media appreciate how serious this is? Don't ...