After Ron Suskind Reveals Bush Admin Ordered Iraq-9/11 Fakery, House Judiciary Chair John Conyers Opens Congressional Probe

Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Condemns Police Intimidation of Journalists. Hurricane Gustav Slams Louisiana: A Report from Jordan   more...Flaherty in New Orleans. As the RNC Opens in St. Paul, Twin Cities Police Arrest Nearly 300; Journalists Targeted. Report: Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted McCain's VP Candidate Sarah Palin. As RNC Opens, Iraq Veterans Against the War March in St. Paul. A Debate: Iraq Veterans Against the War vs. Vets for Freedom.  less

Israel Bars One of its Most Prominent Critics, Norman Finkelstein, for Ten Years. Gore Vidal on the Kennedys and His 1960s Battle with the New York Times. 1968, Forty Years Later: Tariq Ali Looks Back   more...on a Pivotal Year in the Global Struggle for Social Justice.  less

Democracy Now! Producer Nicole Salazar was filming the protest at the RNC when the police surrounded the parking lot she was in and demanded that she leave. Did I mention that she was surrounded?
Nicole   more...clearly identifies herself as a member of the press and asks where are we supposed to go? Dude I can’t see and repeating press, press as she is struck and forced to the ground.

This footage was shot by Democracy Now! producer Nicole Salazar during her arrested on Monday, September 1st 2008 while covering the anti-RNC protests in the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota.  less

World Renowned Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq War, the Bush Presidency, the War on Terror

After Losing Son in Iraq, NY Mother Faces Loss of Foreclosed Home. Ex-Asst. Treasury Sec. Paul Craig Roberts on Wall St. Bailout: "Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?". World Food Day a Reminder   more...of a Global Crisis Further Sidelined by Campaign Frenzy, Financial Woes. "Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation".  less

Israeli Writer-Activist Tikva Honig-Parnass, Who Fought for Israel's Founding in 1948, on 60 Years of Palestinian Dispossession and Occupation. As Israelis Celebrate Independence and Palestinians Mark   more...the "Nakba," a Debate with Benny Morris, Saree Makdisi and Norman Finkelstein.  less

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: Bail Out Wall Street Now, Change Terms Later. No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates. "The Age of the Warrior":   more...Robert Fisk on the US Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine.  less

US Troops Carry Out Deadly Attack in Syria. US Predator Drone Kills 20 in Pakistan. Puerto Rican Labor Struggle: Teachers Vote Against Joining SEIU. Why Don't Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About   more...the Working Class? Kambale Musavuli on the "Forgotten War" in the Congo.  less

Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter Challenges.   more... Report: Voter Purging Process Is Shrouded in Secrecy, Prone to Error and Vulnerable to Manipulation.  less

Ralph Nader on Barack Obama: "It is Quite Clear He is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z". New Monument Honors Slain Journalists. LA School Teacher Fired For Being Too "Afrocentric";   more...Arizona Bill Proposes to Prohibit Teachings Critical of Western Civilization.  less

Max Blumenthal on Sarah Palin’s Radical Right-Wing Pals and Her Ties to the Pro-Secessionist Alaskan Independence Party. Former McCain Supporter Accuses the Senator of "Deliberately Feeding the   more...Most Unhinged Elements of Our Society the Red Meat of Hate". Robert Parry: Why Are McCain Backers So Angry?  less

Toll From Deadly, Coordinated Mumbai Attacks Tops 170, Two Top Indian Officials Resign, Tensions Rise Between India and Pakistan. Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death in Early Morning Stampede of Shoppers   more...on Black Friday.  less

Five Ways Wall Street and Washington Set Us Up for the Crash: Author Nomi Prins Explains Where Congress Went Wrong on Lending. Foreclosure Phil: Journalist David Corn on How McCain Campaign Adviser Phil   more...Gramm Helped Create the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. As Global Food Crisis Tops G8 Summit Agenda, World Leaders Enjoy Lavish 18-Course Banquet. The Fruit Hunters: Author Adam Leith Gollner on the Politics of Fruit and the Secret History of the "Miracle Berry"  less

Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene. Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama's Intelligence Transition Team.   more... As Obama Vows to Close Guantanamo, His Advisers Are Reportedly Crafting a Plan to Create A New System of Preventive Detention and National Security Courts  less

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker on the Proposed $700 Billion Bailout of Wall Street, the Largest Government Bailout of Private Industry in US History, Farnaz Fassihi on "Waiting   more...for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq"  less

Clinton Calls on Supporters to Unite Behind Obama. Narrowing the Obama-Clinton Divide: A Roundtable Discussion. 600 Arrested at Mississippi Factory in Largest Immigration Raid in US History. "Operation   more...First Casualty": Outside Democratic Convention, Iraq Veterans Against the War Re-Enact Raids on Iraqi Civilians. Rep. Dennis Kucinich: "Wake Up America!". Labor Groups Challenge Retail Giant Wal-Mart on Pressuring Employees to Vote Against Obama. In Wake of Deadly US Air Strike, Jeremy Scahill Questions Lawmakers About Obama's Afghanistan Policy. Tarnished by Sex Scandal, John Edwards' Absence Reduces Focus on Poverty at Democratic Convention. When Off the Silver Screen, Actress Daryl Hannah Seen on Frontlines of Environmental Movements. Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on Being Sidelined at DNC.  less

Facing Years in US Prison, Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman Ordered Deported from Canada. Alfred Zappala, Peace Activist Who Lost Son in Iraq, Dies at 68. Russia-Georgia Conflict Fueled by Rush to Control   more...Caspian Energy Resources. Naomi Klein and Christian Parenti on How Beijing Olympics Highlight Globalization of Police State, Inequality  less

Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect Obama's New Economic Team & Stimulus Plan. Stephen Pimpare on "A People's History of Poverty in America"

Arrest of October 30, 2008, Arrest of Neo-Nazis in Obama Assassination Plot a Reminder of Enduring White Supremacist Culture in US Following Deadly US Attack on Syria, Questions of Bush Admin Motives   more...in its Waning Months. Can Dems Re-Claim the South? Once Solidly GOP, Virginia and N.C. Emerging as Battleground States.  less

Iraqis Protest Proposed Deal to Allow US Troops to Stay in Iraq Until 2011. John Nichols on the GOP's New McCarthyism and the 2008 Congressional Races. Barack Obama Accepts Endorsement of Colin Powell   more...Despite the Ex-General's Role in Making the Case for Iraq War. WV Voting Machines Switch Votes from Obama to McCain. McCain Supporters Harass Obama Voters in North Carolina. Ohio Governor: GOP Is Trying to Scare Newly Registered Voters  less

"Descent Into Chaos": Ahmed Rashid on How the US Aid to "War on Terror" Ally Pakistan is Aiding the Taliban. Chris Hedges and Laila al-Arian on "Collateral Damage: America's   more...War Against Iraqi Civilians"  less

US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers. Attorney Scott Horton on "Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration"

Spies for Hire: Carlyle Group to Become Owner of ?One of America?s Largest Private Intelligence Armies?. Clive Stafford Smith: U.S. Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons; Transporting Prisoners To   more...Iraqi Jails To Avoid Media  less