America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship (Paul Craig Roberts)

Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The United States Department of Justice (sic) routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus and concocted crimes that are not even on the statutes ...

Why George W. Bush Should Still Worry (Bill Quigley)

Bush Pens True Crime Book, No Justice for CIA Destruction of 92 Torture Tapes Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to t ...

Big Brother monitored tweets, too (Donald Gilliand)

Nov. 4, 2010 (Patriot-News) -- Tracking the Twitter activity of law-abiding citizens was part of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security’s intelligence surveillance program. According to interna ...

Amnesty International wants Bush on trial over torture (Press TV)

Nov. 10, 2010 (Press TV) -- The London-based Amnesty International has called for a criminal investigation into former US President George W. Bush's admission of torture. The rights group's call come ...

A Recipe for Fascism (Chris Hedges)

Nov. 8, 2010 (Truthdig) -- American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to resp ...

Nine stories the press is underreporting -- fraud, fraud and more fraud (Dan Froomkin)

From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers -- a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of th ...

Finance Has Become a New Form of Warfare: An interview with professor Michael Hudson (Democracy Now!)

Nov. 5, 2010 -- (Democracy Now!) -- The Federal Reserve will pump $600 billion more into the U.S. economy and keep interest rates at historical low levels. The short-term impact of the Fed’s move, kn ...

It Was the Banks (James K. Galbraith)

Nov. 5, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- Bruce Bartlett says it was a failure to focus. Paul Krugman says it was a failure of nerve. Nancy Pelosi says it was the economy's failure. Barack Obama says it was ...

Scariest speed camera of all... It checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt (Luke Salkeld)

Nov. 3, 2010 (Daily Mail) -- Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside. For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with ...

In new memoir, Bush makes clear he approved use of waterboarding (Jeffrey Smith)

Nov. 3, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simula ...

Chomsky: US-led Afghan War Is 'Criminal' (Press TV)

Nov. 3, 2010 (Press TV) -- Renowned Jewish-American scholar Noam Chomsky says the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was "criminal" since there is no evidence al-Qaeda carried out the 9/11 attacks. "All of ...