British and US accused of poppy plague warfare in Afghanistan

Britain and the US have been accused of launching secret biological warfare on Afghanistan's poppy fields in a bid to blight the opium crop.

Ben Farmer in Kabul

Published: 7:00AM BST 06 May 2010…

7 children killed at China school in latest attack

AP – In this photo released by…

It looks like the establishment is really desperate to keep my son Rand out of the Senate. Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani and Rick Santorum were already backing his opponent. And, as you probably know, Senator Mitch McConnell joined the party this week and endorsed…

The Oxnard School district is investigating claims that the boy and girl engaged in oral sex while other students watched a film.

Greece has its immediate financing. Now the question is can they follow the prescription? In all likelihood the answer is…

Selling Diseases

This article is part of Big Pharma, Bad Medicine, a forum on the impact of the pharmaceutical

industry on medical training and science, and the responsibilities ofphysicians.

Athens, Greece - Youths class with riot police during a demonstration. Image by Getty Images via Daylife

This morning, I spoke with Yanis…

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Regular readers of this blog know I’ve been following the disastrous…

Steve,

I was at my doctors office today. I asked him if he had heard anything about the oil rig. He said as a matter of fact he had. Just yesterday one of his patients (who works for Chevron) said about two weeks ago top executives from all of oil drilling companies were called up to Washington for a closed door meeting with the presidential staff. They all came back with orders to keep their mouths shut about the…

May 11, 2010





Dear C4L Member,



Below is the press release Campaign for Liberty is sending to

all major media outlets in reaction to the…

by Gur Salomon

JERUSALEM, May 9 (Xinhua) -- In the modern battlefield, as thermal imaging and radar detection systems grow more sophisticated by the day, war machines are increasingly vulnerable to enemy fire. Would an armored battalion commander want to be able to make his tanks simply vanish from enemy eyes? You can bet on it.…

UN experts says Arizona law violates international human rights treaty

The…