An eye-opening video clip that made it online Wednesday may cause a scandal on par with what erupted with the Abu Ghraib photographs of 2004. Now US Marines have been caught on film - urinating on dead Afghans.

A 40-second excerpt of the clip has managed to made its web to the Web and in it viewers can watch four US Marines on patrol in Afghanistan allegedly urinating on the corpses of deceased Afghan men. It is unclear of the victims’ identities in this incident, but according to a…

He suffered massive heart attack, state news agency says

Posted By Ray McGovern On December 4, 2011

Ambiguous but alarming new wording tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and just passed by the Senate is reminiscent of the “extraordinary measures” introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933.

And the relative lack of reaction so far calls to mind the…

Published: 02 December, 2011, 22:34

No, America's unemployment rate is not 8.6 percent

That's just another lie fed to you by the mainstream media and the US government.

News from the Labor Department on Friday revealed that the…

Privatizing Liberty

Posted: 11/17/11 09:17 PM ET

Richard (RJ) Eskow

As Mayor Bloomberg's forces swooped down on Occupy Wall Street, news reports described the "hundreds of police and…

This story was corrected at 6:30 p.m. to clarify that two separate bills are being introduced

A bill to stop "insider trading" in Congress is gaining momentum with two new Senate supporters.

Watch the "60 Minutes" report below:

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., today introduced the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2011, which would prohibit members…

New Deployment Has Something to Do With China, Officials Insist

The Obama Administration didn’t get the permanent military presence it sought in Iraq, but they…

By CALVIN WOODWARD and NANCY BENAC | AP

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Did you really think these jobs would go to Americans?

New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to US

First, China made cut-price clothes and knick-knacks.…

John Boering

My take on the communications shutdown:

In what is obviously a muscle flexing exercise meant to show the public just how much power and control the federal government really has, all communications will be cut off for an estimated three minutes on November 9^th, 2011. 

Claiming this is a test of the emergency response system, the terror alert system, and any other excuse…

October 27, 2011

A Special Offer from…

How did America become a land of debt-serfs? We can trace our debt-serfdom to three core dynamics which now dominate the American economy. To understand the…

To better understand the Palestinian bid for…

Radley Balko

The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out. The new law, sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) allows prosecutors to bring conspiracy charges against…

Father of Reaganomics to American Youth: Leave the Country