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The Arms Industry Will be Pleased
Of recent there have been reams of newsprint devoted to the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan; and its cost, not the least in human lives. Who profits is to be found in the small print. With escalating violence tearing that nation apart...
WikiLeaks Announces a “New World, where Global History is redefined”
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing an international arrest warrant over rape allegations, the whistleblower website announces a new mega-leak containing 2.8 million documents. WikiLeaks announced via Twitter on Sunday “The coming months...
RT News Crew Gets Arrested and Spends 32 hours in U.S. Jail for Covering Rally Against “School of Assassins”
An RT news crew has been released on bail after spending over 30 hours in a U.S. jail. The male cameraman and female reporter were covering an annual rally near a military base in Georgia nicknamed “School of Assasins”. Watch the video report...
The Real Terror of Flying
Present-day hysteria about child abuse, pornography and the photographing of children has led to absurd situations with sinister overtones. Parents are dragged through court for taking a bath time fun picture of their child. A young father photographing...
The Emperor is Still Naked
Many recall Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of the emperor, who, conned by a pair of travelling tailors allowed himself to be ‘dressed in robes woven so fine’ that only the intelligent could see them. The robes of course didn’t exist; he was...
41.8 million Americans Receiving Food Stamps
The shattered U.S. economy and rising unemployment has pushed a record 41.8 million Americans onto food stamps in July, representing an 18 per cent increase from the prior year. According to White House estimates an average of 43.3 million people, representing...
US New Home Sales Drop 12.4% to Record Low
New home sales fell to record lows in July as the real estate housing market in the US continued to suffer from a slow and fragile economy. Single-family home sales dropped a staggering 12.4 per cent to a 276,000 unit annual rate from a downwardly revised...
Nearly 7 Million Americans Lose Jobs in Q4 2009
According to a report released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S., 6.8 million Americans lost their job in the last quarter of 2009, running from September to December 2009. Despite 6.6 million new jobs created during the same period,...
Russian Scientists Accuse the U.S. of Provoking the Heatwaves Sweeping the Country Using Weather Weapons
Fire and Smoke in Western Russia on August 4, 2010 According to Russian scientists the origin of the heatwave currently sweeping the country would be Alaska, in a room heavily guarded by the Navy and the U.S. Air Force where rows of antennas are aligned....
