"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." -- Thomas Pynchon
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February 2008
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1 in 100 American adults now in prison
Stiglitz: The true cost of war
Oil hits inflation-adjusted record high
The Dollar Selloff Continues
Gold hits new record of $975 on dollar's tumble
FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
AIG reports $5.29 bln quarterly net loss on derivatives hit
Merrill to shut down subprime lending unit-CNBC
A long road from Kosovo to Kurdistan, by Pepe Escobar
Christian Fundamentalism as a Instrument of US Military Doctrine
The secret origins of Scientology
Is depression good for you?
The Medicated Americans: Antidepressant Prescriptions on the Rise
Look who's digging for gold in Myanmar
The most spied upon people in Europe
CCTV Busting Infra-Red Headset Makes You Invisible
Malware removes rival rootkits
Cosmic Winter, by Victor Clube
Does the Sun have a doomsday twin?
Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court
Think Food and Fuel Are Expensive? "You Haven't Seen Anything Yet"
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
The imminent collapse of the international banking system
Sprint Loses $29.5 Billion
Fannie Mae Posts $3.6 Billion Loss
Gas Prices Soar, Posing a Threat to Family Budget
US dollar crashes through $1.50 level against Euro
Gold price rises to record 964.99 dollars per ounce in London
Housing Crumbles Home Depot
Slavery in America: 90¢ an Hour & -20°F Below Zero
Labyrinth found beneath CA home
Toy X-Ray Machine for Kids
No, this isn't Photoshopped. Yes, we're that profoundly messed up.
First Florida, now Texas: Second major anomalous power outage in less than a day
Millions lost power in Florida
40,000 At Risk For HIV/HCV From Vegas Clinic
San Jose Police To Use Crowd Control Sound Wave Weapons
Robot wars 'will be a reality within 10 years'
Russia to deploy 11 new Topol-M ICBMs in 2008
Drug-Resistant TB Rates Soar in Former Soviet Regions
McCain Lobbyist's Plane Flew Saudi Royals Post 911
When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps to Revolution
A CIA officer looks at terrorism in a different light
That Wi-Fi network you thought was secure? It ain't
Credit card readers 'vulnerable to attack'
PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities
Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs
Cocaine Planes Cross Paths with Corporate America's Green Movement
Swiss banks wary of German spies
Turks claim: New technology spells end for wiretapping
Spy device can read data from mobile phone Sim card
Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert
Antidepressant drugs don't work – official study
Creepy, but true: The Dyatlov Pass Accident
FDIC to Add Staff as Bank Failures Loom
Greenspan to Arab states: drop US dollar
Reports Reflect Bleak Housing Picture
Banks Lose to Deadbeat Homeowners as Loans Sold in Bonds Vanish
The three trillion dollar war: The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have grown to staggering proportions
Russia quietly prepares to switch some oil trading from dollars to rubles
Producer Prices in U.S. Increase More Than Forecast
Wheat Breaches $12 for First Time After Biggest Gain Since 2002
'Panic' wheat buying across the US
Bee Collapse To Devastate US Agriculture In 08
Biofuels will not feed the hungry
After the US and British 'liberation', the lives of Afghan women are worse than ever
Kosovo and the Empire Crazies, by Paul Craig Roberts
A bait and switch trick on torture and psychologists?
UK: British Gas broke into our house, say couple who owed them nothing
Storm sends a Valentine
What a little bird told us
Noah's ark for crop seeds opens in Arctic Norway
African Seed Collection First To Arrive In Norway On Route To Arctic Seed Vault
How Labour used the law to keep criticism of Israel secret
U.S. National Security Agency Visits Cryptogon
Poaching doctors from Africa: "international crime"
Major US Banks - Fundamentals Rapidly Deteriorating
Obesity more dangerous than terrorism: Experts
What Do You Need to Survive?
NRC Urges Phaseout Of Radiation Devices In Medicine
More global warming fallout: pythons headed for VA
Human enteric viruses in groundwater from a confined bedrock aquifer
IMF Manipulating Gold Market
The world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat
Wheat Hits Record on US Inventory Report
4GW Meets Campaign '08
DNA Test – A Reason for Discrimination in the US
White House Admits NSA Intercepts of Traffic Inside U.S. Are Ongoing
New evidence challenges official picture of RFK assassination
A painful past sparks concern about Obama's safety
Secret Service Halted Gun Screening Of Obama Crowd
Canada: Apocalyptic Oil Sand Operations
High food prices may force aid rationing
Shoppers warned bigger bills on way
Clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica
The Water Cure: Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.
How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
New threat to SF Bay Area way of life: giant pythons
Could python wend its way to field near you?
Less Money, More Pain: The Bonfire of Capital, by Mike Whitney
Inside the world of war profiteers
MI5 plan to use Belfast bunker in emergency
Hackers use Google to find website vulnerabilities
Cult of the Dead Cow's Goolag Scanner
UK: Government wants personal details of every traveller
False Flag Prospects, 2008 -- Top Three US Target Cities, by Captain Eric H. May
Russia threatens to use force over Kosovo
Profiling gamers
Fun with counter-profiling measures
U.S. Ends Protections for Wolves in 3 States
Medical files in a doctor's care have special legal protections. Not when they're stored by Microsoft or Google.
Protocols for economic collapse in America
Foreclosed Homes Occupied by Homeless
Wall Street Bank Run
German State-Owned Banks on Verge of Collapse
Most Upside Down Home Owners Since Great Depression
U.S. Secret Service Told Dallas Police to Stop Screening for Weapons at Obama Campaign Rally
Separatist Movements Seek Inspiration in Kosovo
Kosovo independence headache for Canada
Overstretched Forces Concern US Officers
Researchers: Disk Encryption Not Secure (with vid.)
Anti-Scientology activist an "apparent suicide"
Researchers investigate mass bat deaths
EU wants RFID tags turned off
CIA confirms British territory used in rendition flights
America's economy risks mother of all meltdowns
PSYOP, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Information Warfare Without Limits
Germany Uses Stolen Data For Tax Collection
CNN Has Al Queda Congratulating Obama
Cold Boot Attack Defeats Disk Encryption Software
Panic after 'Franken-fish' that is deadlier than a piranha is caught in Britain
Google to Store Patients' Health Records
How Harvard students perceive rednecks: The neural basis for prejudice
George Carlin - I Dont Vote (vid.)
When the Internet Is My Hard Drive, Should I Trust Third Parties?
The Motive of the Amerithrax Leaker
Britain is hotspot of new germs says new study
Rule by fear or rule by law?
WTF Are These Facebook Machines Doing?
Gold Hits Record on Oil Rally
U.S. Supreme Court: If the FDA says it's good, it doesn’t matter if your body objects!
Platinum Price Goes Ballistic; Gold to Follow?
Fed Forecasts Inflation, Unemployment
Military Says Missile Hit Spy Satellite
Unilateral Strike Called a Model For U.S. Operations in Pakistan
UAE: Briton is imprisoned for 4 years for 0.003g cannabis caught in the tread of his shoe
"We compared the situation of black Americans during segregation to the lack of freedom for Palestinians . . ."
The Dangers Of ‘Locking Down’ The Internet
Suicide task force considers the 'Werther effect'
The high rates of mental illness among psychiatrists
Liechtenstein defends its banks in German tax-evasion inquiry
Opening a Pandora's Box: Kosovo "Independence" and the Project for a "New Middle East"
". . . a new tipping point in the unfolding of the global systemic crisis . . ."
Spot a Fake Listing on Craigslist and eBay
Judge Threatens Contempt in Anthrax Case
Legality of Bush bugging policy shifts to S.F.
Consumer prices jump more than forecast
Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head
Kosovo: The US and the EU support a Political Process linked to Organized Crime
A Government Devoid of Truth and Decency, by Paul Craig Roberts
Hanging out with the ghetto's Gordon Gekkos
Credit Suisse suspends UK traders over writeoff
World's Largest Maker of Crop Nutrients: Famines May Occur Without Record Harvests
Twelve steps to economic meltdown
UK: Northern Rock deal could cost each person £3,500
You won't see decade-old copies of Paranoia Magazine in dentist waiting rooms.
Wikileaks lives!
US Supreme Court denies bid to challenge the legality of the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
Inside America's Satellite-Killing Missile
Anonymous: Inside the war on Scientology
A high-tech wish list: DARPA procurement plan shows Pentagon's IT research priorities
Very Young Found To Process Fear Memories In Unique Way
Iranian snitch recruitment video
Credit Suisse shocks with $2.8bn loss
Wikileaks Vows To Defy Court Gag
Palestinian security: IOF used vacuum bomb in Breij massacre
300 Palestinians, including 32 children, kidnapped by the Israeli army since the beginning of February
Computer Hackers Allege That Notorious Neo-Nazi Radio Host Is on FBI Payroll
SourceWatch has Revised the History of the CIA's Operation Mockingbird, by Alex Constantine
Has Anyone Done a Cost/Benefit Analysis on this USA 193 Intercept?
Poverty Poisons the Brain
A primer on credit default insurance
China, too, is concerned about U.S. military plans to shoot down damaged spy satellite
FBI "screwed up," spied on entire email network
CIA's front companies ineffective, officials say
The beginning of earth's star wars?
UK: Penniless supergrass, 'I thought I would be looked after for life'
German spy agency pays millions of euros to a tax supergrass
Wikileaks.org taken offline after fire, court injunction
Obesity 'requires climate plan'
Amtrak To Search Passengers - Armed Guards, Dogs Added
Students don't grasp U.S. history
Superpower Divide Over Kosovo Widens
U.S. Credit Markets Collapsing
Dates & Dark Matters, by Loren Coleman
UK: The good news is that a Smoker's Permit will cost only £10. The bad news is how you apply for it
Brits To Get Routine Metal Detector Screening
Canada's secret war in Iraq
Dollar Sales by Japanese Investors Reach Record High
UN: Saboteurs May Have Cut Mideast Telecom Cables
The Dumbing Of America: Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces
22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor
Blogger Chez Panzienza: TV news people just couldn't be that stupid, could they?
CNN producer Chez Panzienza fired from CNN for blogging
Nonsense, dressed up as neuroscience, peddled to school children by their 'credulous and apparently moronic teachers'
On the teaching of evolution in Florida
The Dumbing Of America: Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces
22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor
Wheat market gone wild: Driven by fears of shortage, the price per bushel has shattered records.
World Bank: Livestock diseases new threat to farm sector
Man's death raises Vietnam's H5N1 fatalities to 50
H5N1 Spread in Northern Pakistan?
US Secretly Met Iran Banking Officials
Adults on hyperactive drugs hit record level
Fish devastated by sex-changing chemicals in municipal wastewater
Largest meat recall in U.S. history comes too late: Most of the meat probably has already been consumed
Wheelchair Dumping: The Outrage is Grossly Misplaced
Transcript in JFK-related discovery will fuel conspiracy chatter
Daily Stress May Raise Women's Risk of Cervical Cancer
Adobe Flash Player - Third Party Spyware Parasites
UK: Northern Rock to be nationalised
UK: Crowds 'pick leaders to follow'
Iran opens first oil products bourse
Lockheed Gets $1 Billion FBI Biometric Database Contract
Financial Times: The next crisis will be over food
Is Ritual Child Abuse Just a Hoax?
Predators tell children how to kill themselves
Deputy Charged for Dumping Paralyzed Man
New data look bleak for U.S. economy
UK bank blames fraudsters for World of Warcraft ban
Terrorism still stalks Manhattan: Moody's protection racket
Child fingerprint checks at European borders
UK: Every pupil to be numbered and kept on Government database for life
Ottawa, CA: No security camera? No license, mayor tells taxi drivers
NIU Shooting 'Oddities' -- by Lori Price
Secret printer ID codes may breach EU privacy laws
GM crop trial locations may be hidden from public
California Plans to Spray Pesticide Over Urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay
UK: '£10 licence to smoke' proposed
Assistant Attorney General for National Security: remarks, on Chinese espionage
U.S. to Try to Shoot Down Spy Satellite
Russia: U.S. may use satellite blast to test weapon
Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
Talking to a Wall: Palestine in the Mind of America
Forget politics, you can't even trust sports anymore
Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA
Iraq: iPods turned into war zone translators
UK: Arrested, caged and DNA tested - for using MP3
UK: Students win appeal against cyberjihad convictions
UK: Government wants every English child on 'secure' database
US accused of using 'kangaroo court' to try men accused of role in September 11 attacks
The Implicit Attribution Test
U.S. Senate passes bill to expand government's spying powers
More weather modification warfare documents
NYPD Warns of Chlorine Terror Risk
Britain's Invisible Tanks
Diana inquest: MI6 'plotted tunnel murder'
Prof. Alfred McCoy lectures on CIA torture (vid)
Executions May Be Carried Out at Gitmo
I Was a Sonic Blaster Guinea Pig
Sheriff's deputy caught on videotape dumping a suspect out of a wheelchair
Sheriff's department tries to squirm out of dumping a suspect out of a wheelchair
U.S. Political Establishment Lines Up Behind Barack Obama
Scalia: "Absurd" to Suggest that the U.S. Shouldn’t Torture Alleged Terrorists
One dollar bill to be de-mystified . . . if you believe the government, that is.
Trade in tiger parts unrelenting in Sumatra
Nick Davies: How "flat earth" news is killing journalism
Nick Davies: How the spooks took over the news
Homes in Bubble Regions Remain Wildly Overvalued
Germany becomes the first country to admit clandestine chemtrails operations
Sonic youth deterrent 'should be banned'
More evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid
The Power of the Israel Lobby: A Discussion with Walt and Mersheimer
Implanting False Memories: Lost in the Mall & Paul Ingram
Five Easy Steps To Create A Manchurian Candidate
U.S. mortgage crisis spreads past subprime loans
DARPA continues military AI air-traffic project
Insect explosion 'a threat to food crops'
"Not tonight, dear. Just make it with the robot, if you want."
Tenant Discovered In Apartment 8 Years After He Died
Rand Sinks as South African Electricity Grid Fails
Legendary Funds Manager Julian Robertson Predicts Utter Global Collapse Stemming From Bursting of Property Bubble
The real Tom Lantos
Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them
'The Endless Pursuit of Unnecessary Things'
The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life"
World champion boxer warns that Barack will be assassinated within months if he wins presidency
Hundreds evacuated from North Sea oil platform after 'dream' sparks bomb alert
Nine Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned, by Joe Bageant
Cryptome in the undersea cable cuts
EU plans to require biometrics of all non-European visitors
Bush orders clampdown on flights to US: EU officials furious as Washington says it wants extra data on all air passengers
Abandoned 5.5 Ton Anchor Found Near Damaged Fiber Optic Cable
Taliban set for windfall from Afghan opium crop
Russia's Cyberwarfare doctrine: From Hackers to H-bombs
Advertising Age: As Giant Retailers Reel, Marketers Gird for Worst
I Had to Dump Her -- Her Perfume Kept Setting Off My Home Laser Spectrometer Defense!
Right wing taking wider stance: McCain embraces Rove
CIA continues to manage Miami terrorist groups
Putin vows 'arms race' response
China's Military Hardware Doctrine For The Early 21st Century, Part Two
In major US drill, disaster threatens the nation from the sky, the land _ and from computers
Beijing conducts anti-terror drill in subway
US anti-missile ship to dock in Haifa
Thailand: Officials set for bird flu 'disaster' drill
Taipei: Drill to be held to prepare island for avian flu outbreak
DARPA Wants Supercharged Spy Cams
CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence
Blackwater's Blood Money; How Much for a Dead Son?
Wikipedia ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'
Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site
Homeland Security wants to place border wall through middle of college campus
Media Language and War: Manufacturing Convenient Realities, by Ramzy Baroud
"What Do Ronald Reagan and Joseph Stalin Have in Common?"
Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo . . .
CIA Veteran Calls for Bush's Impeachment
Report: Troops Transmitted Mysterious Bacteria That Has Killed 7 And Affected Military And Civilians Alike
Election theft 2008, the perfect crime: 300 million witnesses and nobody saw nuttin'
Speakers at Air Force Academy who claimed to be former Muslim terrorists were actually evangelical Christians
Grenades, launch tubes stolen from munitions storage facility in Miramar, CA
Israeli Public Security Minister fears arrest in U.K.
Agency criticized for withholding Great Lakes health risk repor
Chavez Threatens US Oil Cutoff
FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill'
DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent
G7 approves IMF gold sales - Italy econ minister
Obama will be assassinated if he wins: Nobel winner Lessing
Despite unimpeachable evidence to the contrary, some people still believe that protests can end the war
More Bombing Creates New Enemies, by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
FDIC Chairperson Bair: "Housing Crisis Has Just Begun"
Disrupting the internet, by John Robb
Fourth Undersea Cable Failure in Middle East, by Bruce Schneier
RFID: The Looming Nightmare
The latest chapter in the sometimes evolving saga of Mike Ruppert vs. Eric Stewart
Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time.
LiveIPMap
Credit crunch changes everyday life in U.S.
How oil burst the American bubble
Spying against oil-rich Norway returns to Cold War levels after lull, intelligence chief says
Google removed Abu Trika's 'Sympathize with Gaza" images from the internet
Us and Them, by Anthony North
Retailers report worst January in nearly 40 years
Mid-East Cable Cuts Now Affecting 85-Million -- Are Terrorists Involved?
Damaged fiber link map
Veterans not entitled to mental health care, U.S. lawyers argue
Why the price of 'peak oil' is famine, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The "Real" Gold Price
Gerry Adams's driver was British spy
The Bush Financial Bust of 2008: "It's All Downhill From Here, Folks" by Mike Whitney
A Strike in the Dark: What did Israel bomb in Syria? by Seymour M. Hersh
Does the Republican Party Have Aces Up Its Sleeves? by Paul Craig Roberts
Princeton University Reveals How the GOP Steals Election
UK Telegraph: Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks'
So what's the problem with memes?
Not only Jérôme Kerviel is pointing an accusing finger at Société Générale
Studies Say Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline
One Internet cut explained, but four others still a mystery
Map of undersea internet cables
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
Archeology Writer Warns of Drought With Climate Change
Bad to Worse: Fifth Undersea Cable Cut in Middle East
The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Sen. Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized
Britain is slithering down the road towards a police state
Department of Homeland Security Copying Personal Data and Stealing Laptop Computers from Travelers
Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots, by Richard Sauder
Brown and Straw branded liars over bugging of Labour whip
How risky are uninsured bank deposits?
Academic shock and awe
Signs Economic Commentary for 4 February 2008
The FBI Deputizes Business
"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York City
France: Vaccine Companies Face Manslaughter Investigation
U.S. sees Russia, China and OPEC financial threat
Nuclear proliferation cannot be controlled now - Former CIA agent says
Mexico 'secretly helped' the CIA against Cuba
Sci-fi? We hope so
Pre-Chewed Baby Food Said to Transmit H.I.V.
Britons are losing their grip on reality
How US Navy Tapped Soviet Undersea Cable
Rain Forests Fall at 'Alarming' Rate
Israel gearing up for another war
Dozens of U.S. banks will fail by 2010: analyst
Rising CO2 levels: A double whammy for the food supply
Dead Crows Cause Panic in Chittagong Bangladesh
Khaleej Times: Ships did not cause Internet cable damage
Questions raised in death of US official in Pakistan
Pentagon: The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system"
Pandora's Box
Pentagon not ready for attack response in U.S.: study
Indonesian Chickens, and People, Hard Hit by Bird Flu
America's Teetering Banking System, by Mike Whitney
Regulation or Deregulation: Which is Worse? by Paul Craig Roberts
Robots ready for Super Bowl kickoff
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