By Eva Golinger - February 15th 2010

In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it "democracy promotion" was born...Through the creation of a series of quasi-private "foundations"...Washington began to filter funding and strategic aid to political parties and groups abroad that promoted the US agenda in nations with insubordinate governments.

By Juliette Jowit - Thursday 18 February 2010

The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found...The report comes amid growing concern that no one is made to pay for most of the use, loss and damage of the environment, which is reaching crisis proportions in the form of pollution and the rapid loss of freshwater, fisheries and fertile soils.

The banking crisis was not cataclysmic; the financing bubbles that caused it had been developing for many years. So where were the banks’ auditors? Why were bank financial statements showing high levels of profitability right up to the point of the financial collapse? What went wrong with the audit of these banks? Could it have had something to do with excessive standardization? Less than a decade after Arthur Andersen, has the CA profession learnt anything?

Water is life, not a commodity.

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.

As a U.S. soldier in 1969, Mike Wong refused orders to Viet Nam and deserted to Canada. Mike is featured in the film Sir! No Sir! In today's wars, Eddie Falcon served as a U.S. Airman in Guantanamo Bay and various places in the Middle East including Iraq and Afghanistan. Mike Wong is a member of Veterans for Peace and Eddie Falcon is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN - March 3, 2010

Public outrage at the Gaza invasion did not come out of the blue but rather marked the nadir of a curve plotting a steady decline in support for Israel. As polling data of Americans and Europeans...suggest, the public has become increasingly critical of Israeli policy over the past decade. The horrific images of death and destruction broadcast around the world during and after the invasion accelerated this development.

By Allen Frances - March 1, 2010

This wholesale medical imperialization of normality could potentially create tens of millions of innocent bystanders who would be mislabeled as having a mental disorder. The pharmaceutical industry would have a field day -- despite the lack of solid evidence of any effective treatments for these newly proposed diagnoses.

New book chronicles inner workings of Saipan's garment factories from first ever first-hand perspective of a former garment factory worker.

Worker exploitation in America and globally.

By Dave Zirin - February 25, 2010

This range of ugliness—from the catty to the racist to the fatal—is significant because it exposes the reality of what the Winter Olympics are all about. The International Olympic Committee—that sewing circle of monarchists, extortionists, and absolved fascists—likes to hide behind the pretense of nobility. It claims to care not for profit or personal gain.

By Edward Herman - January 01, 2010

It is of great interest and importance that the emergence, growth, and dominance of the National Security State in Latin America, complete with the widespread prevalence of death squads and torture...took place in the U.S. backyard and with crucial U.S. initiative and support. It is also notable that U.S. liberals were in the forefront in advancing this process.

By David Rovics - Znet

In the context of most modern, relatively well-off countries, it seems quite evident that rioting – even if it's not much of a riot – only impedes anyone's efforts at building a movement. It is, in fact, a much-used strategy of the police...I have no doubt that the first rock...is thrown by an undercover cop at least half the time in most situations. I also have no doubt that most of the young people participating in Black Bloc...are well-meaning people doing a lot of good work in their communities when they're not throwing rocks through windows. But...when they start throwing rocks during a march they are doing exactly the same work as the police provocateurs...

By Dave Zirin - February 22, 2010

The IOC and the International Luge Federation (FIL) should right now be begging for forgiveness, demanding a thorough investigation, and already starting to make restitution to Kumaritashvili's family. They should count themselves as lucky that they won't be nabbed for involuntary manslaughter. Instead, they have chosen a path of ugly arrogance...Even for people who oversee winter sports, this is very cold-blooded.