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DemocracyNow.org January 31 2008
AMY GOODMAN: Here, you have John Edwards dropping out, and on the same day, longtime consumer advocate and two-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader launched a presidential exploratory committee to decide whether to run as an independent. Ralph Nader ran on the Green ticket in ’96 and 2000, as an independent in 2004, which would make him three-time presidential candidate. On his website, Ralph Nader is urging supporters to “discipline the corporate crooks (…)

Tamiflu-resistant flu found in Canada and U.S.
CTV.ca News Staff Updated: Fri. Feb. 1 2008 12:34 PM ET
The main flu virus circulating in Canada and the United States has shown "elevated resistance" to the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
In Canada, 8 out of 81 samples showed resistance — more than a 10 per cent resistance rate, a WHO spokesperson said
Normally, just under one per cent of flu viruses would be expected to be resistant to the (…)

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE’S TRADING SCANDAL by DOUG SAUNDERS
LONDON — As Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown met for dinner in London last night, there was a distinct sense that both leaders were having an Enron moment: The sudden realization that the country’s most-respected industries are going to need more government oversight.
Both the French President and the British Prime Minister, who met to discuss the rattling economy and banking crises in an emergency summit with other European leaders, (…)

George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born-again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled A Charge to Keep. Bush was so taken by it, he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography. And here’s what he says about it:
I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly (…)

Global Research, January 29, 2008
Iraqi Diplomats Association : Blatant Derogation of 1949 Geneva Convention We are greatly alarmed by the following appeal issued by the Iraqi Diplomats Association concerning Iraqi Prisoners of War (POWs.
"The lives of Iraqi POWs are in danger. In defense of international humanitarian law and the rights of the Iraqi people and Iraqi prisoners, we join the Association in urging all UN responsible agencies, humanitarian organizations, legal and human (…)

Press Release: Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes
Press Conference, Room C, ... all » 1 Parliament Street Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm
John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain’s former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.
Officers from Scotland (…)

Snow slams China; half million stranded at train station By Jaime FlorCruz CNN
BEIJING, China (CNN) — Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and unclog railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather.
More than 67 million people have been affected by the weather and economic losses are expected to reach as much as $3 billion, Chinese officials say.
Blizzards have snapped power lines and destroyed houses and farmland, prompting (…)

Global Research January 16, 2008
F. William Engdahl
The ongoing and deepening global financial crisis, nominally triggered in July 2007 by an event involving a small German bank holding securitized assets backed by USA sub-prime real estate mortgages, can best be understood as an essential part of an historical process dating back to the end of the Second World War—the rise and decline of the American Century.
The American Century, proudly proclaimed by Time-Life founder and (…)

CounterPunch, January 23, 2008
What Gives the US the Right to Claim a Moral Monopoly Over the World?
"The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction."
Five Western military leaders.
I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Owellled Orwell: The West must nuke other countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of (…)

The United States of America, once the home of the brave and the land of the free, where money, ideas and people flowed freely and without obstruction has become a constipated mess more resembling a third world nation than the world’s economic powerhouse.
Thus, the USA is in need of the time-honored method of removing rotting detritus and partially-digested flotsam from deep within its bowels. America needs a hose shoved up its butt and a high pressure hot water stream imposed to dislodge (…)