Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plans to slam President Bushs faith-based program as a photo op? and a failure on Tuesday, and says he would scrap the office and create a new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that would be a critical? part of his administration.

Here's one highlight: Obama sought money for the University of Chicago Hospitals. Wife Michelle works for the University of Chicago Hospitals, appointed in spring 2005 as vice president for community and external affairs at the University of…

Al Qaeda’s growing north Africa network plans to attack U.S. interests seeking control of the region’s energy riches, its Algerian-based leader said in remarks published on Tuesday.

He said Algeria's banking of its energy export receipts in U.S. and European financial institutions showed that the Algiers government served western interests. He added that French, Spanish and “Jewish” interests were also targets.

With enough signatures, Californians could be voting to legalize marijuana in the upcoming November election. They need 694,354 signatures by September, 5, 2008. It’s totally do-able. Its been over a decade since Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, was passed with over 5 million votes in favor.

While this may insulate California consumers from state police, marijuana will still be illegal under federal law, and if one state were to flagrantly announce that it will violate federal law, DOJ would probably get involved in busting and…

U.S. Consumer Confidence may be at its lowest in 16 years, but the World’s ultra-Rich who like to spend their money on things or experiences that will enhance their lifestyle, such as travel or jewelry, aren’t deterred by the shaky economy.

These numbers represent a shift in global spending and market share. James Chung, president of Slingerlands, N.Y.-based Reach Advisors, a marketing strategy and research firm focused on the wealthiest half-percent of Americans, says that…

The grandson of Prescott, that dreamer of the 1930s, established with very little resistance that the U.S. government can kidnap, detain indefinitely on no charge, torture, and murder. The United States under Prescott Bush’s grandson adopted policies that heretofore had been considered only Nazi policies….

Actually, if you listen to the 30-minute BBC story, there is not one word of so much as speculation as to why this story is so little known. I think a clue to the answer can be found by looking into why this BBC report has not led to any U.S….

It’s clear, Bush and Cheney are insane with power and they will not stop until the destroy the GOP.
“They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program,” Hersh said.

"Under the law of war and armed conflict, necessary preparations must be made for the burial of soldiers of aggressor nations," said Maj. Gen. Mirfaisal Baqerzadeh, an Iranian officer in charge of identifying soldiers missing in…

Didn’t he learn his lesson last time?

The last time Florida Congressman Robert Wexler and Stephen met, it was all about how fun cocaine and prostitutes were. Last night, Wexler was a little shy about playing the repeating game. He's got two opponents to worry about this time.

Members of the state attorney general’s Gun Violence Task Force announced Moore’s abrupt career change yesterday morning by smashing a battering ram through the door of his West Philadelphia apartment.

Members of the state attorney general's Gun Violence Task Force announced Moore's abrupt career change yesterday morning by smashing a battering ram through the door of his West Philadelphia apartment. The 44-year-old was arrested…

UN records 7 incidents of IDF soldiers attempting to drive Palestinian farmers away from border fence by shooting at them. Only one offence marked against Palestinians for firing on Sderot; report does not include most recent rocket fire

Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement. Following the rocket fire at Sderot, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the fire constitutes a blatant violation of the truce. Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided…

Scott Ritter is speaking out about what he sees as history repeating itself regarding U.S. policy toward Iran and the inevitability of a U.S.-led attack on the country, which he believes will happen prior to a new president being sworn into office in January 2009.
Were going to see some military activity before the new administration is sworn in.

Ritter had some tough words for Washington lawmakers for continuously failing to put any obstacles into place to block the Bush administration from even attempting to attack Iran without first consulting Congress. We see not only has Congress…

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used political or ideological? factors to hire new lawyers, a new report found Tuesday.

The shift began in 2002, when advisers to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft restructured the honors program in response to what some officials saw as a liberal tilt in recruiting young lawyers from elite law schools like Harvard and Yale….

U.S. President George W. Bush’s Justice Department improperly injected politics into hiring programs, a department investigation released on Tuesday found.

A report by the department's inspector general and office of professional responsibility said members of a screening committee were asked to weed out “wackos” and ideological “extremists” who sought work in a competitive…

With iconoclast Ron Paul having ended his quixotic bid for the Republican presidential nomination ? his platform had called for, among other things, ending the Iraq War, repealing the PATRIOT Act, returning to the gold standard and eliminating taxes on tips ? his many dedicated supporters are up for grabs.

While it had little impact on his base of political support, Paul found himself the subject of widespread criticism when racist remarks published in the 1990s in the Ron Paul Political Report, a newsletter he?s distributed for decades, came to…

Think Blackwater’s days are numbered? Think again. Jeremy Scahill explains why its slaughter of Iraqis has not stopped the notorious mercenary firm.

Jeremy Scahill: Thank you. I started writing this book by accident. I'd been writing about Blackwater when my [Nation] editors Katrina vanden Heuvel and Betsy Reed sat me down and said, “We've published ten articles about one company…

Israel conducted a major aerial military exercise over the eastern Mediterranean Sea earlier this month, a U.S. military official confirmed to CNN.

"If Iran continues its program to develop nuclear weapons, we will attack it," Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz told Yediot Ahronot in the paper's June 6 report. "The window of opportunity has closed. The sanctions…

“As Im sure many of you know, there are plenty of emails floating around the Internet targeting Jewish voters and saying that Senator Obama is secretly a Muslim, and a radical one at that. Lets call those rumors what they are: lies.” - A very long, well written piece by Mayor Bloomberg.

You might say we’ve grown up – and the younger generation has helped us do it. I’m not just talking about Jews and African-Americans. I’m talking about all of New York, the most wonderfully diverse city…

Even as President Bushs approval rating languishes at a record low, more than twice as many Americans have confidence in the presidency ? 26 percent ? than have confidence in Congress.

I agree, this article is about the knuckleheads in Congress not about the presidential election. Every member of the House is up for re-election this year and every one of them should be compelled to go on record with his position about…

European air force bases that store U.S. nuclear bombs are failing to meet basic security requirements to safeguard the weapons, according to a report obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Whether European countries undertake such discussions or not, the 38th Munitions Maintenance Group, which overseas the billeted U.S. weapons, is already under scrutiny from its own command in the wake of the report. According to the website of…

Brigadier-General James Ellery CBE, the Foreign Offices Senior Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad since 2003, confirmed the critical role of Iraqi oil reserves in potentially alleviating a world shortage? of conventional oil.
The Iraq war has helped to head off what Brigadier Ellery described as tide of Easternisation…

During the UN sanctions regime imposed primarily by the US and Britain, Iraq was banned from importing thousands of household goods, including food, medicines, clothes and books, from 1991 to 2003, purportedly to prevent Saddam from developing…

Internal Coca-Cola incident report from 19 Sep 2007. A driver for Coca-Cola hit nineteen children in the village of Kiwira, in the Mbeya region of Tanzania, as they crossed the road after Church near Coca-Cola’s Mbeya plant.

Internal Coca-Cola incident report from 19 Sep 2007. A driver for Coca-Cola hit nineteen children in the village of Kiwira, in the Mbeya region of Tanzania, as they crossed the road after Church near Coca-Cola's Mbeya plant. He…