Ayotte amendment seeks return to Bush-era torture

2 Dec 2011 | Amendment currently before Congress seeks to re-establish newly outlawed US torture techniques. ...  

Wall Street Banks received secret Fed loans worth $7.7 trillion before GFC

29 Nov 2011 | Travis Waldron from Think Progress says Wall Street banks received huge secret payments from the ...  

Bank lobbyists secret plan to discredit Occupy Wall Street

22 Nov 2011 | Washington lobbyists crafted an $850,000 plan for the banking industry to discredit the Occupy ...  

Australia threatens China with agreement to host US troops

22 Nov 2011 | Australia may lose more than it gains with its agreement to host US troops. Greg Barns says it ...  

Caught on camera: ten shockingly violent police assaults on Occupy protesters

20 Nov 2011 | Probably 97 per cent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 per cent are ...  

IAEA Report is next step on road to war

16 Nov 2011 | Last week's IAEA report was the next step on the well-worn road to war — this time against Iran. ...  

Obama reneges on Guantanamo promises

15 Nov 2011 | Why has President Barack Obama reneged on a campaign promise to reject military commissions for ...  

The corrupt reporting of Fukushima radiation risks

14 Nov 2011 | Nuclear authorities and the mainstream media have been actively minimising and trivialising the ...  

Mexicans struggle against a rotten elite

12 Nov 2011 | John Pilger writes that the last Mexican "...election, in 2006, was won by Felipe Calderon, ...  

The misery of foreign farming in Africa

10 Nov 2011 | Farming cash crops such as coffee and sugar for Western importers has brought misery upon Africa ...  

Australian Government's shabby treatment of Assange much like Hicks'

8 Nov 2011 | Julia Gillard should ask Barack Obama to cease the persecution of Julian Assange while the US ...  

Reagan and Guatemala’s death files

8 Nov 2011 | Robert Parry from Consortium News says “...there is no …indication that [Ronald Reagan] was ...  

Too Big to Jail

6 Nov 2011 | [caption id="attachment_11438" align="alignright" caption="Robert Rubin (Photo: Center for Amer ...  

Creative fiction and the Irish presidential system

3 Nov 2011 | [caption id="attachment_11316" align="alignright" caption="Irish President-elect Michael D Higg ...  

Fiji junta divides military

3 Nov 2011 | High profile Fijian military officers say the UN should stop deploying Fijian soldiers into ...  

Michael Moore talks about life among the one per cent

1 Nov 2011 | Michael Moore is one of the world’s most successful documentary makers. Despite his wealth, he ...  

Halloween and the American obsession with fear

31 Oct 2011 | Halloween has arrived, but in America, the culture of fear is a year-long thing. US correspondent ...  

Vicar of Baghdad: life continues to be awful and wonderful

30 Oct 2011 | Life in Baghdad continues to be awful and wonderful, says the Vicar of Baghdad, the Rev Dr Andrew ...