See if you can identify this victim of America's war on drugs. She is dead now, thanks to this stupid, senseless war.
Every President since JFK essentially has. Every President essentially becomes a puppet for the war machine. Will Obama become another puppet? Mind you, if you challenge the machine, you risk getting murdered....witness JFK's plans to withdraw from Vietnam.
The murder of a 23-year-old Florida woman in a botched drug buy-bust operation this May could lead to changes in how confidential informants are recruited and used by the state's law enforcement.
firefighters asked to report people who expressed discontent with their government!
The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T.
Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit.
First, cut taxes. Second, cut taxes. Third, reduce the regulations imposed on small business. Fourth, cut taxes. Fifth, cut taxes. What will Obama do instead? None of the above, for sure. He believes in higher taxes and more regulation.
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The accountant who predicted the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy says as many as 10 insolvencies will roil the $2.7 trillion U.S.
"The economic crisis is huge and Greece is showing, I think, the future for what will happen in other countries. We could say that 2009, 20 years on, will see the collapse of Western capitalism."
Russian gas giant Gazprom has renewed its threat to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on 1 January, saying a contract dispute has reached a "critical" stage.
The residue of millions of tons of coal burning at Kingston Fossil power plant in the Watts Bar Reservoir in Tennessee burst the bounds of the pond in which it was contained, burying as many as 400 acres of land in up to six feet of sludge.
Yes, we are all, or should be all, pro-worker here on Newsvine. After all, we're a pretty liberal bunch, right? But the truth is, all of you "liberals" don't care all that much about today's workers.
Sales of single-family houses in the U.S. dropped in November by the most in two decades and resale prices collapsed at a pace reminiscent of the Great Depression, dashing speculation the market was close to a bottom.
I was a doomsdayer a couple of years ago, before the crowds joined in. Then for a while, I became an optimist, thinking that all those doomsdayers had to have it wrong.
Does anyone remember that back in the early 1990s, AT&T; ran television ads suggesting that blacks call their families during Kwanzaa using their telephone service? That stores stocked Kwanzaa candles and kente clothes? That student unions were festooned with Marcus Garvey's pa …
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.
ARE you afraid that the eco nomic downturn could get out of hand? I mean, really out of hand? Well, don't worry. The US Army War College is on the case - ready to handle "unforeseen economic collapse" and the "rapid dissolution of public order in all or significant part …
Financial analyst Ralph Silva of TowerGroup told CNBC this morning that he expects no less than one third of banks to fail in 2009 and that anything up to a thousand could collapse if they don't merge. Silva said that only five or six global banks have enough funds to survive …
This is very dangerous territory. In dollar terms, the numbers being applied to the various problems are so colossal -- trillions! -- that the death of our currency seems assured.
The Great Depression has reached Detroit. The average price of a home is now $18,513 and unemployment has reached 21%, and it's expected to get worse.
LONDON (AFP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams warned Monday that governments should not pursue dogmatic solutions to the financial crisis at the risk of the most vulnerable, saying that is what the Nazis did. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, he said Hitler's …
CHAOZHOU, China -- As China's economy stalls, rising public unrest has bubbled up in a series of labor strikes across the country.
In the United States, the danger of debt insolvency is growing, putting at risk the currency reserves of foreign countries, China chief among them. According to new figures published by Bloomberg in recent days (Nov.
AMERICANS KNOW THAT China has financed much of their nation's public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agreed on the peril of borrowing so heavily from this one foreign source.
Mike Sunnucks, writing for the Phoenix Business Journal, reports that Arizona state and local police "say they have broad plans to deal with social unrest, including trouble resulting from economic distress.