US starts emergency radio tests: Why have one network when one radio can use them all? The Department of Homeland Security has announced preliminary tests of a radio designed to use all the frequencies where first responders hang out, which might prove easier than getting them all to...
IntelBrief: July 3, 2009 WHO warns swine flu 'unstoppable'
The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. World...
Obama Continues to Move Further Away From Promise of Transparency (The Intelligence Daily) -- The Obama administration continues to back away from its grand promises of transparency and open government by using legal arguments virtually identical to those made by...
Questioning The Ethical Legitimacy of Drone Attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan (The Intelligence Daily) -- Ongoing civilian casualties must become an important consideration relative to the use and the legitimacy of drones in South Asia. In a belated official statement last...
Obama Has No Legal Authority To Escalate Afghan War and is Creating “Humanitarian Catastrophe”... Excerpt: The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in the first place because the Taliban government refused to allow UNOCAL oil to build the TAPI pipeline across its territory, Boyle said.(The Intelligence...
The Election of Barack Obama Has Paralyzed Progressive Forces in US Politics (Video) (Black Agenda Report) -- This speech delivered by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford at African Liberation Day 2009, highlights the paralysis of black and progressive leadership and the dead end in...
No economic “green shoots” in world trade and transport (WSWS) -- On June 24, the World Trade Organization announced an upwardly revised estimation of how much world trade will contract in 2009. The organization’s March estimate predicted a record...
US states’ budget crises threaten social disaster (WSWS) -- In 1975, as New York City faced a fiscal crisis, then-President Gerald Ford refused an appeal from the city for aid, prompting the famous New York Daily News headline, “Ford to City:...
Israel attempts to stop S-300 air defense supplies to Iran (RIA Novosti) - Israel has intensified its efforts to prevent deliveries of Russian S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a 2007 contract, an Israeli newspaper said on Monday.
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Bomb Destroys Greece Tax Office in Athens Related: Video: Greek Cops Caught on Video Posing as Anarchists(Novinite) -- In June, a far-left militant group called Armed Revolutionary Action claimed it carried out a similar attack on another...
