By DAVID ROSEN - March 5-7, 2010

The deep suspicion of corporate censorship shared by web activists, civil libertarians and the public itself is well taken. To overcome such suspicion, the arbitrary, non-transparent and anti-democratic control that corporation facilitators have over content distribution must stop. If corporations are rewarded with greater influence...over the political process, they should at least be required to cease all attempts to control what free people can say or hear or see.

One of the CIA's many lawless, destructive programs.

By ETHAN WATTERS - January 10, 2010

...[W]e may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization. We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad.

By JONATHAN COOK - January 13, 2010

Israel unveiled “Iron Dome” last week, a missile-defence system that is designed to strike a knock-out blow against short-range rockets of the variety fired into Israel by Hamas and Hizbullah...[S]everal big question marks hang over the Israeli project, despite the large claims being made by Israeli officials...Israel’s siege of Gaza could quickly be matched by a war of attrition by Hamas and Hizbullah against Israel’s defence budget -- at a time when Israel is pondering expensive military adventures further afield, such as in Iran.

By Peter Fimrite - Saturday, December 19, 2009

If the course of human history is any model, then the wheels are already turning on Earth's sixth mass extinction, thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and now global warming, a scientific analysis of millions of years of data revealed Friday...The study of the fossil and archaeological record over the past 30 million years...shows that between 15 and 42 percent of the mammals in North America disappeared after humans arrived.

This new video focuses on the counterrevolution launched against the Black Panther Party, other 1960's revolutionary groups, and the poor and oppressed communities that these groups were organizing. Kiilu Nyasha is a San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party.

By Suzanne Goldenberg - December 08, 2009

The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if [this] week's Copenhagen climate change summit ended in collapse...James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.

December 06, 2009 - Znet

As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research and the need for urgent action to reduce heat-trapping emissions. In the last few weeks, opponents of taking action on climate change have misrepresented both the content and the significance of stolen emails to obscure public understanding of climate science and the scientific process.

A struggle we have to win.

By MARTHA ROSENBERG - November 4, 2009

CMEs (or Continuing Medical Education courses) are sponsored by drug makers, "taught" by industry-funded specialists and bracketed by pop-up drugs ads which sometimes occlude the text you're reading...[D]octors are required to sit through the canned message like a time-share presentation and answer a quiz just to keep their state licenses and sometimes insurance policies.

By Amy Goodman - October 08, 2009

A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home -- all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possession of instruments of crime. He was posting to a Twitter feed...publicly available information about police activities around the G-20 protests...

By Doug Ireland - October 03, 2009

Gay mathematical genius Alan Turing, considered the father of modern computers and a national hero in Britain for breaking the Nazis' Enigma code and other German military ciphers and thus shortening the war, has received an official apology from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for being prosecuted and chemically castrated for his homosexuality. The unspeakable torture drove the brilliant scientist to suicide in 1954 at the young age of 41.