Media manipulation regarding the loss of lives in Iraq is nothign new, but according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a total amount of 73,846 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the beginning of the occupation.  Although the US military today has much faster and safer services for evacuating injured soldiers than it [...]

Approximately 105 children from a Libyan government home for orphans and abused children located in Misrata have been missing since February 2011. Groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reported that rebel forces entering Misrata abducted the children.   However the events remain a mystery. The Gaddafi government claimed that the children were taken [...]

In effort to gain a Congressional passage of the Colombian FTA (Free Trade Agreement) the Colombian Government, the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) and the support of the U.S. military have all contributed to the rationalizing of substantial anti-union killings in Colombia.  In 2010, Colombia alone accounted for over 40% [...]

Instead of liquidating bad debt, banks are rescued by lavish funding even though they’re technically insolvent. Toxic debt’s are still with us, and the public’s on the hook for amounts the government is covering.   The public sector is equally fragile, but unlike banks the people are paying for their own losses. Greece is the epicenter [...]

North Dakota is the only state with a state banking system and it is being used as a model for seventeen other states that currently have introduced bills for state-owned banks or are researching this plan. This is a system that has allowed North Dakota to maintain a thriving economy and have the lowest un-employment [...]

Wikileaks has revealed US ties to Honduras wealthiest businessman and political heavyweight Miguel Facusse. Miguel Facusse’s private security guards, known locally as sicarios, have been connected with alleged assassinations and armed attacks in the impoverished campisno of the Aguan Valley where Facusse owns approximately one-fifth of the land.   Human rights groups all over the [...]

If women are raped in Honduras they now have no legal way to keep from becoming pregnant without fear of imprisonment. In February 2012, the Honduran Supreme Court voted to uphold the strictest ban on emergency contraception in the world.  This ban criminalizes the sale, distribution and use of emergency contraception known as the “morning-after [...]

Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush [...]

It’s clear that sixteen unarmed Afghan civilians, nine of whom were children, were murdered recently but what is unclear is whether it was done by one U.S. solider acting alone, as U.S. sources are claiming, or by multiple U.S. soldiers, as Afghan witnesses and the Afghan president is declaring. American officials have stated that a [...]

October 6, 2011 marked the ten-year anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan. On this day, hundreds of members of The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan gathered in protest, demanding immediate removal of all foreign troops. They believe the U.S. entered their country under false pretenses, touting “reconstruction,” “human rights,” and “war on terror”.  In [...]