By John Byrne

Pentagon originally said Marine killed in combat

The Pentagon confirmed late Tuesday that it is investigating the death of a 24-year-old Indiana Marine after he was shot to death in Afghanistan, allegedly by several US-paid…

By TheMarker Correspondent and AP , By Guy Griml

Employees at the Payoneer are still trying to understand what hit them: the Israeli startup company has faced a wave of unwanted publicity after Dubai police claimed that suspects in the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh used its credit card technology.



Payoneer provides prepaid credit cards, which means holders can fill them with money and use…

By Wayne Madsen

Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5637.shtml…

By Chris Hedges

We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were…

By KAJA WHITEHOUSE

A reform proposal is gaining traction in Washington to crown Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as the new banking king, with broad authority over the nation's largest banks, according to people familiar with the matter.

These people tell The Post that the proposal, which is gaining support in the Senate Banking Committee, would give the Fed chief supervisory power over the 25…

By Danny Mendlow

Here’s where we’re at folks. The end of the line.

“The end of free-market capitalism”

I’ve heard it called.

“The sub-prime mortgage crisis”

Some blame it on.

“A global economic…

Six more Britons, including a 23-year-old woman, have discovered their identities were stolen by an alleged Mossad hit squad in the murder of a Hamas leader last month.

By Richard Spencer in Dubai and Aislinn Laing…

By Michael Bobelian…

Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police * Senate Inquiry Shows Contractor Signed for Rifles Using 'South Park' Alias

by Spencer Ackerman

In the year of 2001 we witnessed as a nation the smearing of an entire race and creed of people based on the actions of nineteen muslim individuals. The mainstream media successfully wiped out the decades of peaceful co-existence that Americans had shared with millions of American Muslims here in our country. According to the mainstream media all Muslims were the enemy, all Muslims were hate filled religious fanatics that wanted to destroy our way…

By RUSSELL MOKHIBER

Barack Obama we knew about.

If you are disappointed in Obama, shame on you.…

PITTS INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO REPLACE PAPER MONEY WITH GOLD, SILVER COINS

South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.

Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens,…

The government in Dubai has issued pictures of 11 "agents with European passports" that it suspects of involvement in the assassination of a top Hamas official last month.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was murdered in his hotel room in Dubai on 20 January.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, accused Israeli agents…

Posted by William Grigg

James Rourke was living out a parent’s worst nightmare when two Pennsylvania State Troopers arrived and promptly made matters much worse.

A little after 6:00 p.m. on January 28, Rourke, a 59-year-old man…

By Cory Doctorow

Philadelphia TSA screeners forced the developmentally delayed, four-year-old son of a Camden, PA police officer to remove his leg-braces and wobble through a checkpoint, despite the fact that their procedure calls for such a case to be handled through a swabbing in a private room. When the police…

Military officials say that civilian casualties are "inevitable" as U.S. and allied forces launch Operation Moshtarak, the largest military action since the U.S-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Thanks in part to conflicting messages from ISAF and in part due to some residents' inability to flee, many civilians remain in Marjah. Statements from Brig. Gen. Nicholson, commander of the operation, indicate that he feels he has leeway to use airstrikes in…

By Liz Hull

It has been nicknamed the flying saucepan and looks an unlikely weapon in the war against crime.

But yesterday it emerged that a suspected car thief had become the first…