By DPA
The whistleblower website WikiLeaks quoted a secret cable sent by former US ambassador in Islamabad, Anne Patterson, that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had promised to tolerate the strikes. Continue
By David Corn
WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution. Continue
Video Report
El-Masri's futile efforts at receiving justice in the U.S. are well-known, but cables recently leaked by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. also warned German authorities not to allow a local investigation into his kidnapping. Continue
By Juan Cole
London and Washington intended to get hold of Amano as soon as Elbaradei had departed, and twist his arm to be more alarmist in his reports on Iran. Continue
By Seumas Milne
The WikiLeaks avalanche has exposed floundering imperial rule to scrutiny – and its reliance on dictatorship and deceit. Continue
By Roy Greenslade
The Times story said the newspaper had made the decision not to publish 'at the request of the Obama administration'. Continue
By Ellen Nakashima
After being dumped by Amazon, WikiLeaks quickly sent out a response via its Twitter site: "If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books." Continue
By Glenn Greenwald
The ringleaders of this hate ritual are advocates of -- and in some cases directly responsible for -- the world's deadliest and most lawless actions of the last decade. Continue
By Paul Craig Roberts
The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our "modern" world, which in fact is a throwback to the Dark Ages. Continue
By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo
Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said. Continue
A Foreclosure Story
By MICHAEL W. HUDSON
The mortgage had passed from Ameriquest to Lehman Brothers to Chase Manhattan, which in turn relied on yet another company, Ocwen, to act as the loan's servicer. Ocwen collected Ozenne's payments and, after he couldn't keep up, foreclosed on the home where he'd lived half his life.Continue
Professor, Author Jacob Hacker on "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class"
Bernie Sanders: $9 Trillion in Bailouts to Corporations Exposed: Video The biggest single transfer of taxpayer money to corporate America
UK banks borrowed more than £640bn from US Federal Reserve: British banks borrowed more than $1 trillion (£640bn) from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis, led by Barclays following its swoop on the US business of Lehman Brothers.
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