Thursday, 25 November 2010


By Daniel Tencer

The imminent document dump will include reports from US diplomats on corruption within foreign governments and among world leaders. Continue



By Klaus Wiegrefe

It indicates steps by the German government to prevent the war and undermines claims in George W. Bush's memoir that Gerhard Schröder indicated he would support the president should the US go to war. Continue



By R.G. RATCLIFFE and PEGGY FIKAC

DeLay and two political aides were accused of arranging to trade $190,000 in corporate money with the Republican National Committee in 2002 in exchange a like amount of money raised from individual donations that the RNC gave to seven specified Texas candidates. Continue


Wikiarguments

By Carmen Yarrusso

A government for sale to the highest bidder forces both moneyed special interests and members of Congress to not only participate in an obvious con game, but to compete among themselves (thus raising the stakes and ruthlessness) in this massive influence-peddling scam that robs the American people of billions each year. Continue



By Rory Fitzgerald

Market insiders have called the plan "staggeringly austere" and the proof of their scepticism lies in the fact that bond yields widened further still after the plan was announced. Continue



By Mike Whitney

The Irish people didn't struggle through centuries of famine and foreign occupation so they could be debt-peons in the EU's corporate Uberstate. Continue