Fear Factors

The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens — Why Aren’t We?

Originally published at AlterNet By Joshua Holland on February 3, 2009 Explosive anger is spilling out onto the streets of Europe. The meltdown of the global economy is igniting massive social unrest in a region...

Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool

Originally published at ChicagoTribune.com By Greg Miller, Washington Bureau on January 31, 2009 WASHINGTON -- The CIA's secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantánamo Bay will eventually go back to being...

Cold War vets sue over alleged germ experiments

By Paul Elias Associated Press January 7, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO -- Six veterans who claim they were exposed to dangerous chemicals, germs and mind-altering drugs during Cold War experiments sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other...

Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War

Paulson's Financial Bailout It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of...

The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere. It’s time to stop the mission creep.

By Thomas A. Schweich Sunday, December 21, 2008 We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most...

US prepares for ‘continuity of government’, Bruce Fein

December 1, 2008 Reporting by Zaa Nkweta RealNewsNetwork.com Bruce Fein: Army to deal with potential domestic "civil unrest and crowd control" Watch this brief news video at TheRealNews.com. Transcript below. The US federal government has made strong preparations for "continuity of...

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