In a growing trend among college campuses, banks are now introducing more ways to siphon millions of dollars in 'fees' from the already debt-ridden student population.

A new…

A new report released this week by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reveals alarming child poverty rates within affluent, or 'developed', nations. The US ranks second highest among all measured countries, with 23.1 per cent of children living in poverty,…

Given the weighty U.S. sanctions imposed upon Iran for its nuclear program, this is a story we never expected to write. 

A group of leading American nuclear scientists in New Jersey are…

The escalating covert war in Yemen is leading to untold civilian casualties and increased support for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), according to multiple reports.…

by CHRIS FLOYD

by: Ian Pounds --- lives in Kabul. He can be reached at: ian.pounds@gmail.com…

AlterNet Executive Editor Don Hazen talks to Ferguson, the Academy Award winner for "Inside Job," about his new book on the rapid rise of "Oligarchy America."…

The White House is planning to convene a cybersecurity summit Wednesday morning to discuss ways to counter botnets, which have emerged as the leading Internet security threat.

Industry representatives…

The continued commodification and privatization of public water resources ensures that they will be in private hands in the future, and that the process of making decisions regarding them will be based on their profitability.  The humanitarian crisis that is already unfolding in many countries due to lack of water will not weigh in as heavily as the bottom line.  This is how corporations work.

The companies that profit from water know that scarcity always translates into higher…

During the month of April of 2011, international Latin rock star Robi Draco Rosa announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Unlike most cancer patients in the U.S., he chose the non-traditional so-called Burzynski therapy and as of today, only a year after his diagnosis, three of his four cancerous tumors are gone.  The irony: the life-saving therapy that he chose has been the object of persistent litigation and persecution by…

Source: RawStory | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 17:47 EDT

A New Jersey man who repeatedly stabbed himself and threw pieces of his flesh and intestines at law enforcement officials remains hospitalized in critical condition on…

I think this view of life is completely wrong. Humans and animals are beings that might look the same from the outside but we can all agree that we are all born differently; we are not the same when it comes to values and preferences. What we share is a desire to become better and to end our suffering,…

By Jay Zen

29.5.12

In the eerily prophetic film V for Vendetta, the heroic (my description) character V chooses to wage his war on the elitist and evil establishment via what could be called subversive tactics.

Whilst this is a film of fiction it certainly occurred to me to be almost a forewarning of what was coming and indeed what is in many instances, already here.

A man pushed to his limits by a…

Below is a column from Washington Post.  The column addresses how the continued rollbacks on civil liberties in the United States conflicts with the view of the country as the land of the free.  If we are going to adopt Chinese legal principles, we should at least have the integrity to adopt one Chinese proverb: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their…

Hey fin, it's been a while... So im going to blog/news post about several things today because ive been busy a whole lot...  Today, a new film arrived in North Korea nailing the 'western system' propaganda on the head, although zionism and new world order and Illuminati and all that other terms are not used, it's certainly pretty accurate on how the 'western life' pretty much is. It's a 3 part video but the 3rd part is supposed to be uploaded today or some time tomorrow. Ill provide you with…

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MIAMI -- Authorities in Miami are looking for more witnesses after a police officer fatally shot a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man on a busy downtown highway ramp.

Detective William Moreno said police are looking for people to fill in the blanks on what led to the grisly scene in which a witness…

Source: RT | May 28, 2012

More US soldiers than ever are surviving oversees deployments, but the injuries sustained in Afghanistan and Iraq mean 45 per cent of the new vets are seeking disability benefits. In the long run the compensation may cost…

House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet.

The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the…