DhafirTrial

By Richard C. Cook globalresearch.ca 5/2/07

The author of this independent report worked for the Carter White House and NASA, then spent 21 years with the U.S. Treasury Department. In the report, he explains that the U.S. financial system headed by the Federal Reserve System has failed (more…)

By Nir Hasson Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies 4/30/07

Israel’s nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was convicted Monday by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court of violating a military order prohibiting him from talking to foreign nationals. (more…)

[This article talks about Dr. Dhafir’s case as well as others.]
By Stephen Lendman sjlendman.blogspot.com 5/2/07

Economist and media critic Edward S. Herman and social and political critic Noam Chomsky note two kinds of victims in their classic 1988 book “Manufacturing Consent.” So does journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger in his writings. (more…)

Interview with John Pilger

By: Pablo Navarrete venezuelanalysis.com 5/02/07

John Pilger is an award-winning journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter (more…)

What might the president do with his new power to declare martial law?

by James Bovard The American Conservative 4/23/07

How many pipe bombs might it take to end American democracy? Far fewer than it would have taken a year ago. (more…)

By JORGE RUEDA www.guardian.co.uk 5/1/07

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions. (more…)

Evo Morales and the New Wave of Democracy in Latin America

Democratically elected with 54% of the vote, he is soft-spoken, honest, mature, humble and trying to balance a history of oligarchic elitism with the growing needs on his people. Audio available here: Information Clearing House

By William Fisher Truthout 4/28/07

    As a new report charged that the US Department of Homeland Security is illegally delaying the citizenship applications of thousands of immigrants by profiling Muslims and subjecting them to indefinite security checks, a major American-Arab advocacy group launched a campaign to end a controversial post-9/11 program it says discriminates against Muslim visitors to the US. (more…)