For most Americans, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay—once the topic of heated political debate by presidential hopeful Barack Obama but rarely talked about by the incumbent President Obama—has become a footnote in the government’s ongoing war on terror. Yet for the approximately 167 detainees still being held in that godforsaken gulag, 86 of whom [...]

“AquAdvantage” salmon, a genetically modified (GM) salmon altered to secrete growth hormone year round resulting in twice the size of a normal salmon, have tested positive for infectious salmon anemia (ISA) according to the Cohen Commission of Canada. ISA, a viral disease that causes severe anemia in fish, has been reported to have a devastating [...]

In Pam Martens article “Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Funded Center” she discusses how recently it came out that there has been more than $150 million in taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in “lower Manhattan where Wall Street firms get to sit alongside the New York Police Department and spy [...]

Despite the recent U.S. budget crisis, the Obama administration seemed to find it reasonable to build a new massive and rather pricey prison in Bagram, Afghanistan.  The estimated cost of the project is between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000 according to an announcement on FedBIzOps.Gov, a website used to announce privatized spending projects.  The detention facility will [...]

Despite objections by local Garifuna communities of Afro-Caribbean descent, Honduras’ de facto government is moving to take over the first and only Garifuna-managed hospital in the country, ousting its current staff.  In August, the de facto ministry of health notified hospital staff that the facility was being downgraded to a health center under new management. “These measures would [...]