Natural News | 1 March 2015 A WhiteHouse.gov petition calling for the prohibition of laws requiring mandatory vaccines has been throttled by the White House, buried from public view and finally frozen for over 36 hours to prevent the petition from achieving 100,000 signatures, Natural News can now reveal. The petition, which was rapidly headed…
John Chuckman | 25 Feb 2015 The truth is that the risk of an American being killed by terrorism is close to zero, having been calculated at 1:20,000,000 In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, the annual toll of…
Paul Edwards | Counterpunch | 6 Nov 2014 The Totalitarian Apparatus of the National Security State The word evil, if not readily definable in clear, comprehensive language, is at least roughly understood in concept by a person of normal intelligence. The purpose here is not to endeavor to define the term explicitly, but to examine…
NZ Listener | 27 Nov 2014 The day after National won its third term, John Key warned his Government against displays of arrogance. It’s hard to reconcile that good advice with National’s determination to bulldoze new security laws through Parliament before it rises for the Christmas break. The Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill is being…
By Thomas Gaist | World Socialist Web Site | November 19, 2014 The US Defense Department (DOD) is developing domestic espionage and covert operations targeting “the general public” in coordination with the intelligence establishment and police agencies, according to a New York Times report. “The Times analysis showed that the military and its investigative agencies have almost as many…
Lawrence S. Wittner | History News Network | 16 Nov 2014 U.S. politicians and pundits are fond of saying that America’s wars have defended America’s freedom. But the historical record doesn’t bear out this contention. In fact, over the past century, U.S. wars have triggered major encroachments upon civil liberties. Shortly after the United States…
by Joanna Rothkopf | Salon | November 17, 2014 Land to be used for private hunting reserve 40,000 Masai people will be evicted from their homeland in Tanzania, because the Dubai royal family has bought it with the intention of using it as a reserve to hunt big game. Last year, the Tanzanian government…
By Charlotte Iserbyt | NewsWithViews.com | November 15, 2014 Necessary for the shift from academics to limited learning for lifelong labor “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk…
by Dustin Volz | National Journal | November 13, 2014 “We regret this inadvertent inaccuracy and apologize for any confusion that may have been caused The Justice Department acknowledged that it misled a federal Appeals Court during oral arguments last month in a case reviewing whether the government should be able to secretly conduct electronic…
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. | NewsWithViews | November 10, 2014 (Note: The day following the November 4 elections, President Obama replied to a question about whether he would issue Executive Orders by saying that if Congress would send him bills he could sign, only then would his Executive Orders “go away.” In other words…