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US President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency in Texas as tropical storm Alex gathers strength and oil workers are evacuated

form rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

The President’s decision follows yesterday’s announcement by the National…

Mac Slavo

Just when you thought we had enough money for the Social Security ponzi scheme, it turns out we don’t.

Republican Minority Leader John Boehner says we need to reform the country’s entitlement system, starting with Social Security:

Eventually getting the retirement age to 70 is a step that needs to be taken.

I think, secondly, instead of using the wage inflator, that increases in social security should be based on the consumer…

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Today the Israeli news service sent out an email broadcast, 87 US Senators affirmed unquestioning support for Israel in the wake of

worldwide condemnation for Israeli actions against the Freedom

Flotilla. In Australia, Prime Minister Rudd, after strongly admonishing

Israel for counterfeiting Australian…

by Alan Keyes

Throughout his political career, Obama has consistently declared his view that the Constitution's purposeful restraint of government power is obsolete. Since the outset of his occupation of the White House, he and his faction have signaled

their intent to circumvent, undermine or simply set aside the authority

of the U.S. Constitution. Both here and in…

by David DeGraw

Building on my Af-Pak War Racket report, a few recent news items help expose the true

drivers of current wars around the world.

#1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and…

by Sheldon Richman

As time goes by, the record of the Bush administration gets worse and worse.

It could turn out that the most egregious offense of the Bush-esque Obama

administration will be that its Justice Department let Bush-Cheney &Co.off scot-free.

It’s not enough that the…

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by Justin Raimondo

The more one looks at the Bradley Manning case, the stranger the whole thing seems.

SPC Manning, you’ll recall, is the 22-year-old…

This Thursday, the FCC opens up comments on its proposal regulate the Internet. While no one is quite sure all that it will contain, Scott

Cleland (a long-time telecom policy expert and insider) has pieced

together recent FCC filings from Google to outline how…

OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic being employed those segments of the American military who would…

By Anna Caldwell…

By Andrew Hough

Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical

communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit

by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned.

Perhaps the greatest victims of the economic nightmare that is unfolding right in front of our eyes are our children. The overall economic numbers are really bad, but when you

examine the impact that this economy is having on children things get

really horrifying. Today, 1 in 5…

There are quite a few U.S. cities that are complete and utter economic disaster zones in 2010 (Detroit for

example), but there is something about the demise of Las Vegas that is

absolutely stunning. In recent decades, Las Vegas has become a symbol

for the over-the-top affluence and decadence of America. But now it is…