By Carter Doughtery | The International Herald Tribune| Jun. 30, 2008
As the United States markets edge toward bear territory, losing nearly 20 percent of their value from last fall's peak, investors might wonder where they can turn for relief. The gloomy answer: nowhere.

By Tim Paradis| Associated Press | Jun. 30, 2008
Stocks headed for a narrowly mixed open Monday as oil prices set a new trading record and investors awaited a regional manufacturing reading for hints about where the market might be headed after last week's steep sell-off.

BBC | Jun. 30, 2008
An Iranian man has been sentenced to death for spying for Israel, according to reports from Tehran. Ali Ashtari was found guilty of sending "sensitive information on military, defence and research centres" to Iran's arch foe in the region, reports say.

By Allan Dowd | Reuters | Jun. 27, 2008
British Columbia (Reuters) - Civic leader Scott Nelson says he is as worried as anyone about global warming, but that does not make him happy to be one of the first North Americans to pay a carbon tax to curb climate change.

By Judith Young | Pacific Free Press | Jun. 28, 2008
Evidence for a necon plan for false flag terrorism at The Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 25-28. Former morning briefer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr., McGovern noted that Iran is carefully avoiding any actions that could be interpreted as provocations for an attack: hence justification for an attack would require a pretext manufactured by the Administration and/or the Israelis.

NaturalNews.com | Jun. 27, 2008
Electric car maker Aptera claims that the electric-gasoline hybrid version of its new Typ-1 vehicle gets 300 miles per gallon. The vehicle will be available early in 2008 for less than $30,000.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Jun. 26, 2008
A pair of significant bombings shook Iraq today and underscored how tenuous the security gains made in the last few months actually are. Three U.S. Marines were among the dead in the attack in Karma. At least 48 Iraqis were killed and 119 more were wounded across the country as well.

By Tim Shipman | The Telegraph | Jun. 29, 2008
Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few days, but campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" in peace talks with Mrs Clinton's aides.

By Christina Lamb | Times Online | Jun. 29, 2008
A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe.

By Ryan Singel | Wired.com | Jun. 27, 2008
Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate's vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others.

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Stewart Howe and Jeremy Rothe-Kushel ask Whitehouse Press Secretary Scott McClellan about 9-11 and the Constitution. McClellan pretends to not have heard of PNAC and Building 7. Unfortunately for McClellan, treason is not that easy to hide. Video footage shot by Jeremy Rothe-Kushel and Stewart Howe. Editing by Joel Bevaqua.

BBC | Jun. 27, 2008
In London, Brent crude jumped to $142.13 a barrel, while New York light crude climbed as high as $142.26. Producers' group Opec has been under pressure to boost production, though recent reports have shown its members are split over whether to lift output.

WorldNetDaily.com | Jun. 26, 2008
Officials are outraged after a Mexican judge released a Mexican national who allegedly struck and killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent with his vehicle.

By Maura Reynolds | Los Angeles Times | Jun. 26, 2008
Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush's economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, reflecting a sharp increase in public pessimism during the last year.

By John F. McManus | John Birch Society | Jun. 26, 2008
According to a new law passed by Congress, the incandescent light bulb will be outlawed for use by 2014. All Americans will be forced to purchase the new compact fluorescent bulbs that are not only potentially toxic, they are made only in China.

Press.tv | Jun. 25, 2008
The US military has constructed four advanced bases 20 miles from Iraq's border with Iran, a senior Iraqi police officer has announced. The bases, equipped with missile launch pads, have been set up over the past four months on the Iraq-Iran border; Iraqi al-Noor newspaper quoted the official as saying.

WorldNetDaily.com | Jun. 25, 2008
Six men in police tactical clothing are suspected of shooting a man to death, firing more than 100 rounds into his Phoenix home in what some are calling a Mexican drug cartel hit performed by members of the active Mexican Army.

thenewspaper.com | Jun. 26, 2008
A proposed law currently awaiting the signature of Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) would remove any barrier to a police agency that wishes to forcibly remove blood from motorists accused of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). State Senator Timothy J. Grendell (R-Chesterland) introduced this anti-DUI measure which sailed through the state House with an 87-6 vote and a 33-0 vote in the Senate earlier this month.

Associated Press | Jun. 26, 200
Global warming may increase illegal immigration, terrorism. Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

Associated Press | Jun. 26, 2008
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.

By Eric Hundman | foreignpolicy.com | Jun. 25, 2008
Last Saturday, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei sat for an Arabic-language interview on the al-Arabiya network. During a discussion about Iran, ElBaradei was asked how much time the country would need to "produce" a nuclear weapon. "It would need at least six months to one year," he replied.

BY David Ovalle | Miami Herald | Jun. 25, 2008
Adam Kidan, who helped prosecutors convict his former business partner, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, will serve half of his original sentence for a crooked loan deal, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

By Paul Joseph Watson & Aaron Dykes | Prison Planet | Jun. 25, 2008
Leaked confidential NIST documents concerning the investigation into the collapse of WTC 7, the 47-storey skyscraper that was not hit by a plane but imploded in under seven seconds on 9/11, reveal that an "unusual" event preceded the collapse of the building - a "jet of flames" that shot out of several windows after most of the fire had already died down.

By Jonathan Turley | Jonathanturley.org| Jun. 25, 2008
This morning I will testify in the House Judiciary Committee on the Bush Administration’s record on prosecuting terrorism. The Justice Department continues to inflate the number of terrorism cases by citing such crimes as immigration violations and general fraud as terrorist-related. The result is to give a false impression that there is a great level of domestic terrorism than is truly the case. Below is the testimony (footnotes not included).

By Richard Edwards | The Telegraph | Jun. 25, 2008
A schoolboy aged 12 has been identified as an al-Qaeda inspired extremist after sending beheading videos to his classmates, police have disclosed. Anti-terrorism chiefs have said the example revealed how violent extremism is spreading “like a virus infecting young minds”.

By Chris Mooney | Wired.com | Jun. 24, 2008
Ken Caldeira, a 25-year-old activist and computer geek. Back then he was paying the rent doing software consulting on Wall Street, but his passion for the environment would eventually lead him to become one of the nation's leading experts on global warming.

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Raw Story | Jun. 24, 2008
British civil libertarians are charging that local governments have gone too far in spying on their own people, particularly through the use of surveillance cameras that were intended to foil terrorists.

USAToday | Jun. 23, 2008
The U.S. general who led the Army's investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal says the Bush administration "has committed war crimes" as a result of what happened to detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay "when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture."

By Muhammad Sahimi | AntiWar.com | Jun. 24, 2008
No part of the world, not even the United States, has been more deeply affected by George W. Bush's presidency than the Middle East. From the lofty goals of starting a "democratic revolution," making a "new Middle East," and helping the Palestinians to have their own independent state, to the bogus "war on terror," invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and meddling in Lebanon, Bush's Middle East policy has been simply one disaster after another.

By Tim Jones | Chicago Tribune | Jun. 24, 2008
The great American assault on tooth decay began here 63 years ago, earning Grand Rapids a special place in the annals of dental history: the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water system.

By Richard Lardner | The Huffington Post | Jun. 23, 2008
The Army's march to overhaul its tarnished contracting system has been slowed by an unlikely foe: the White House. The Office of Management and Budget, President Bush's administrative arm, has shot down a service plan to add five active-duty generals who would oversee purchasing and monitor contractor performance.

BBC | Jun. 23, 2008
An aide to Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has said he regrets telling a reporter that a terror attack on the US would be "an advantage".

By Tony Platt | truthdig.org | Jun. 23, 2008
The 1942 U.S. Supreme Court case of Skinner v. Oklahoma is remembered for protecting “the right to have offspring,” and by implication the right not to have offspring. Skinner, according to Victoria Nourse, the author of an important new book on American eugenics, typically “sits in the shadow of the abortion and gay marriage debates.”

By Paul Davenport  | The Associated Press | Jun. 17, 2008
Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a bill Tuesday making Arizona the latest state to refuse to implement new "Real ID" security standards mandated by the federal government for driver's licenses.

By Bei Hu | Bloomberg | Jun. 23, 2008
Gold prices may rise to $5,000 an ounce as investors seek to protect themselves against accelerating inflation, said Schroder Investment Management Ltd., which oversees $277 billion of assets globally.

By Kurt Nimo | Infowars.com | Jun, 23, 2008
It is obvious watching the BBC’s trailer of its "The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Third Tower," set to air on Sunday, 6 July, that "Auntie Beeb" will attempt to make it appear Building 7 at the WTC complex came down as a result of fire (see trailer below). In other words, it appears the BBC will push — and defend — the government explanation hastily cooked up after attention was focused on the mysterious collapse by researchers, a collapse diligently ignored by the 9/11 Commission in its final report, or that is to say its final whitewas

By Andrew McLemore | RawStory.com | Jun. 22, 2008
President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he thinks Senator Barack Obama may be elected, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told FOX News Sunday morning.

By Sebastiam Abbot | topix.com | Jun. 23, 2008
Facing strong U.S. pressure and global dismay over oil prices, Saudi Arabia said Sunday it will produce more crude this year if the market needs it. But the vague pledge fell far short of U.S. hopes for a specific increase and may do little to lower prices immediately.

By Steven Lendman| Intellegence Daily | Jun. 23, 2008
Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that "no self-respecting fish would (want to be) wrapped in a Murdock paper....His goal (isn't) quality journalism (it's) vast power, political power."

By Ray McGovern | Anti-war.com | Jun. 23, 2008
Unlike the attack on Iraq five years ago, to deal with Iran there need be no massing of troops. And, with the propaganda buildup already well under way, there need be little, if any, forewarning before shock and awe and pox – in the form of air and missile attacks – begin.

Reuters | Jun. 17, 2008
Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.