Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial.
by Nat Hentoff

If and when there’s the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA’s secret prisons, there will be mounds of evidence available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations, [...]

 
The Acamar Journal has been writing about the potential for a financial crisis for some time now but what the market sees as a credit crunch is probably the start of something truly ominous.
As the US Comptroller General, David Walker, put it last week in the UK’s Financial Times: “Drawing parallels with the end of [...]

by James Petras* – August 2007

Picture: Mapping the dynamics of empire and domestic decay. Book cover of Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists, Militants (Clarity Press: Atlanta, 2007). This book by James Petras provides a comprehensive guide to the systemic dimensions of the US empire.

All the major financial analysts claim the [...]

by Jason Miller

“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it’s more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody’s blood whether they were strong or not. But now it [...]

#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.
Student Researchers: Lauren Powell, Brett Forest, and Zoe Huffman
Faculty Evaluator: Andrew Roth, Ph.D.
Throughout 2005 and 2006, a large underground debate raged regarding the [...]

by Michael Mccarthy
 
Why are we asking this now?
Because hurricanes like the one which has careered across the Caribbean and was last night striking Mexico are only formed when the surface temperature of the ocean exceeds a specific point, which is 26C. As the oceans warm globally with climate change, much larger areas of water [...]

by Imtiaz Rafi Butt*
*The writer is the chairman of Jinnah Rafi Foundation and honorary consul of Malaysia in Lahore.

This month marks the 60th anniversary the Quaid-e-Azam’s dream of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, an independent realm of a secular nature that the oppressed Muslim minority of India could proudly call home. Six decades on, though [...]