- Obama's Perilous Compromise with Wall Street Looters President Obama has made a bad mistake: Instead of cracking down on serial looters and complicit regulators, he plans to reward them.

- Why Big Finance Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank Instead of making loans to help the economy, they're shoring up their own finances and buying up their competitors.

- War on Gaza: More Civilian Deaths; Olmert Lies: 'No Humanitarian Crisis' Despite Olmert's claims, reports of civilian causalities and brutal firsthand accounts continue to pour in.

- Can America Clean Up from Its Worst Environmental Disaster? [Contains Photo Slideshow] With the breaking of a coal waste dam in Tennessee, environmental and human health is threatened by millions of pounds of toxic chemicals.

- Oregon Looks at Taxing Mileage Instead of Gasoline States are concerned that the trend toward fuel efficient cars will lower their revenues from gas taxes. Unfortunately, Oregon and other states have proposed an alternative that is not environmentally-sensitive or respectful of

- Israel Destroys Hamas Homes, Flattens Gaza Mosque Israel’s next set of targets put the homes of Hamas officials in the cross hairs. A senior Hamas leader and his family were killed in an air strike on January 1st, the first of many to be struck the following day.

- Obama's Deadly Silence In our media-saturated America, it is easy to turn off and tune-out. This article reminds the reader that Obama has been silent on Gaza, even though he’s taken the time to comment on the state of the United States

- Mugabe set to launch new government Mugabe’s finally bitten the bullet and terminated the employment of a dozen ZANU-PF ministers who lost their seats in March parliamentary polls. The thing to remember about ZANU-PF and MDC is that the dichotomy is

- Palestine Bleeds; the World Shudders

- A Massacre in Palestine - Responses and Developments

- Today We Stop The War

- As Mumia Abu-Jamal faces US Supreme Court, his supporters mobilize globally

- HK vil finne alternativer til israelske varer Source: HK-Nytt

- Utdanningsforbundet utsetter Israel-reise Source: Utdanning

- Saint-Gobain permitterer 32 ansatte Source: Agderposten

- Unio: Stopp krigshandlingene! Source: Unio

- September-desember Vestby Avis - 01.01.09 ...desember frifinnes ambulansesjåfør Erik Schjenken for utilbørlig opptreden mot Ali Farah som hardt skadd ble forlatt av Schjenken og en koll

- Nyhetsåret 2008 - mars og april TV2 - 31.12.08 ...2 Nyhetene offentliggjør opptakene fra ambulanse-fadesen i Sofienbergparken. Ali Farah ble slått ned og alvorlig skadet i Sofienbergparken. Foto: Car

- September-desember Lofotposten - 30.12.08 ...desember frifinnes ambulansesjåfør Erik Schjenken for utilbørlig opptreden mot Ali Farah som hardt skadd ble forlatt av Schjenken og en koll

- 2008: Barneombud, finanskrise og stabbur til leie VG Nett - 29.12.08 ...til tunge rusmisbrukere. KLEMMEN: Ali Farah og Erik Schjenken har skværet opp. Foto...Schjenken for utilbørlig opptreden mot Ali Farah som hardt

- Journalism Group Offers Fake News Training When television stations take the "'quick and dirty' route to health news coverage" by airing sponsored videos produced by public relations firms or other companies, it's a real problem, writes journalism professor Gary Schwitzer.

- Penn's Pakistan Project Mark PennUntil March 2008, the major public relations firm Burson-Marsteller counted among its clients the Pakistan People's Party, as the Center for Media and Democracy previously reported. Burson-Marsteller promised to influence

- When Chu Chose BP Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu "seems about as climate friendly as they come," writes Josh Harkinson, but "more industry friendly than his rhetoric suggests." As the director of the Energy Department-funded Lawrence Berkele

- Online Ammo This "Air Force Blog Assessment" chart specifies "rules of engagement" for dealing with bloggers.Viral marketing strategist David Meerman Scott says he was surprised recently to discover that the U.S. Air Force has its own Twitter

- Euro Trashed 1: New Rome-antics An occupation and protests at a Rome university campus continues.

- Euro Trashed 2: Tracks Of My Tear Gas Greece goes into its second week of rioting, and this week several TV and Radio stations were occupied by protesters.

- Euro Trashed 3: Riotschool Musical Schoolkids protest across France against school reforms.

- Up On The Roof A roof-top occupation at Raytheon's Bristol office goes into its second week.