India Awaits Green Light for Raids on Pakistan
By Usman Khalid
It seems that Pakistan has the reincarnation of the Sheikh Mujib as a leader. And it was Mujibs’s treachery that precipitated the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war and Pakistan’s defeat. Continue
U.S. Draws India Into The Afghan War
M.K. Bhadrakumar
The time has come to carefully assess the U.S. motivations in widening the gyre of the Afghan war. Continue
Herding Humans For Profit
By: Peter Chamberlin
The duplicitous leaders in those countries then carry-out America's will, to set them upon a path to war, in effect, driving their own people into a "kill trap" where unwanted war is forced upon them. This pattern prevails all over the earth, wherever the US has imperial designs. We are all being herded into a global war trap, some call it world war III. Continue
Homeland Security forecasts 5-year terror threats: The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press.
USA needs nuclear explosion to turn the world into dictatorship: Is the United States going to put dictatorship into effect under the guise of the anti-terrorist struggle? What may trigger another major transformation in 2009? The answer is obvious: another 9/11 in the USA
Japan output data casts more gloom: The figures released on Friday shows Japanese industrial production slumped more than eight per cent in November from the month before, the biggest fall on record.
U.S. Economy: Home Prices Fall Near Depression Pace: Sales of single-family houses in the U.S. dropped in November by the most in two decades and resale prices collapsed at a pace reminiscent of the Great Depression, dashing speculation the market was close to a bottom.
Visits to U.S. Retailers Fell 24% on Weekend Before Christmas: Customer visits to U.S. retailers fell 24 percent last weekend compared with a year earlier, the biggest drop on record, as deepened discounts failed to attract consumers.
Cash-strapped states look to cut from Medicaid: States from Rhode Island to California are being forced to curtail Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, as they struggle to cope with the deteriorating economy.
Military recruiters having no trouble filling quotas: In a crumbling economy, jobs disappear and opportunities fade. But one employer always has openings: the U.S. military.