Hong Kong's ghostly seas warn of looming global tragedy (AFP)

HONG KONG, Oct 29 (AFP) Oct 29, 2009 The live fish facing death in the glass tanks in Hong Kong's famous seafood restaurants tell a strange and haunting tale of a looming global tragedy. At the heart ...

Economy in U.S. Expands for First Time in a Year (Timothy R. Homan)

By Timothy R. Homan Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, propelled by stimulus-driven gains in consumer spending and home building ...

Soros: China should lead ‘new world order’ (Daniel Tencer)

By Daniel Tencer Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 -- 3:56 pm (Raw Story) -- China should step up to the plate as the leader of a new global economic order, and the US shouldn't fear the establishment of ...

Rethinking Relativity: Is Time Out of Joint? (Rachel Courtland)

From New Scientist Ever since Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off Africa to measure starlight bending around the sun during a 1919 eclipse, evidence for Einstein's theory of gene ...

U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan's History (Rick Rozoff)

Sept. 24, 2009 (Global Research) -- Over the past week U.S. newspapers and television networks have been abuzz with reports that Washington and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase o ...

Government Secrecy and the 'Continuity of Government' Plan (Dale Tavris)

Oct. 22, 2009 -- As long as the cult of secrecy remains an acceptable principle of government policy, th war profiteers will continue to have their way. We'll continue to pay for immoral, illegal war ...

'Setting the Crown for a Corporate State': The Monopolization of Democracy by Corporations (Dale Tavris)

If the Congress goes down the road I see them going down, they will institutionalize the corporate state in a way that will be severely damaging to any possibility of restoring democracy -- William G ...

Public Option Favored by ALL Demographic Groups – Including Republicans (Dale Tavris)

Oct. 8, 2009 -- So vast is the majority in favor of a public option that even 70% of Republicans favor it. So, in order to turn us against it, the health insurance industry has to make us believe that ...

Insurgents Taking Charge in Kunduz | Gul Rahim Niazmand

Once one of the most stable provinces, parts of Kunduz are falling under Taleban control Oct. 12, 2009 (Institute For War And Peace Reporting) -- The vehicle is marked Kunduz provincial police headqu ...

Who's in Big Brother's Database? (James Bamford)

The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid Bloomsbury, 423 pp., $30.00 Oct. 11, 2009 (New York Review Of Books) -- On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid ...

A Change Coming to the World Monetary System? (Luis de Sousa)

Published Oct 7 2009 by Oil Drum - Europe, Archived Oct 7 2009 by Luis de Sousa This is an expanded version of a short post I wrote for the EuropeanTribune. Given the amount of interest the price of ...