- Bush-Led 'Disaster Capitalism' Exploits Worldwide Misery to Make a Buck The Iraq disaster and rising gas and food prices have people across the globe in a state of fear and shock. It's high times for Bush & Co.

- Echoes of Vietnam: VA Stalls, Dissembles While Vets Suffer and Die The latest episode of the Department of Veterans Affairs' callous denial of veterans' suffering is a continuation of a long tradition.

- The Science of Happiness: Is It All Bullshit? Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn't mean it is.

- The U.S. Is Drowning in Pretend Patriotism This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

- Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicides consisted of 55% of the nation’s nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005. And 2005 was not a fluke year. Gun related suicides have outnumbered firearm homici

- Civil rights group opposes new FBI authority As Yogi Berra once said, “This is like deja vu all over again.” Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI’s COINTELPRO ( Counterintelligence Programs) routinely investigated Americans without any evidence they had br

- U.S. lags behind developed world in life expectancy rankings The growing gap between the incomes of the rich and the poor (i.e. everybody else) in the U.S. has long been noted, if not well-advertised. Quality of life, on the other hand, has largely been assumed to have remained amo

- Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due To Math Glitch “By accounting for random differences between individuals, extinction rates for endangered species can be orders of magnitude higher than conservation biologists have believed.” “We suggest that extinc

- Resistance action against police in Kamagasaki

- New and brutal aggression to Rosary Indymedia of camarógrafo

- Repression against animal rights activists - 'touch one, touch all'

- Utah Phillips has left the stage

- 32 døde i arbeidsulykker hittil i år Source: Arbeidstilsynet

- Mild norsk streikevår Source: Bergens Tidende

- Frivillig arbeid forbudt uten arbeidstillatelse Source: Fagbladet

- 50 år med streikerett i staten Source: Fri fagbevegelse

- Italiensk højesteret godkender etnisk registrering Berlusconi-regeringen lægger op til at registrere alle romaer. Højesteret godkender, hvis blot begrundelsen er tyvagtighed. - Nyheder / Internationalt, Arbejderen.dk

- Pædagoger: »Vi har lært at råbe højt« Med strejken har vi taget stilling til, hvad vi kæmper for, siger pædagog, som blev fagligt aktiv under overenskomstkampen. - Nyheder / Fagligt & arbejdsmarked, OK08, Arbejderen.dk

- Fort Europa nærmer sig EU bruger mange ressourcer på at undgå indvandring. Samtidig skal en ny ordning gøre det muligt at udnytte de bedste hoveder hos tredjelande. - Nyheder / EU, Flygtninge & indvandrere, Arbejderen.dk

- EU vil censurere bloggere EU er så træt af, at almindelige mennesker kan skrive, hvad de vil på internettet ved at oprette en blog, at de i fremtiden skal registreres og godkendes. - Nyheder / IT & internet, EU, Arbejderen.dk

- Varsler søksmål i Obiora-saken Rakkestad Avis - 2 dager siden Trondheim (ANB-NTB): Familien til Eugene Obiora vil saksøke Sør-Trøndelag politidistrikt og tre av politimennene som var involvert da

- Etterlatte til Obiora til sak mot politiet Utrop.no - 2 dager siden Familien til avdøde Eugene Ejike Obiora (48) planlegger å saksøke Sør-Trøndelag politidistrikt og tre av politimennene som var involvert

- Varsler søksmål i Obiora-saken Lofotposten - 2 dager siden Trondheim (ANB-NTB): Familien til Eugene Obiora vil saksøke Sør-Trøndelag politidistrikt og tre av politimennene som var involvert da Ob

- Vil saksøke politiet etter Obioras dødsfall Dagsavisen - 2 dager siden Familien til Obiora vil saksøke politiet etter dødsfallet. Foto: Scanpix Familien til Eugene Obiora planlegger å saksøke Sør-Trøndelag

- Weekly Radio Spin: Who's Nevada's Sugar Daddy? Listen to this week's edition of the "Weekly Radio Spin," the Center for Media and Democracy's audio report on the stories behind the news. This week, we look at the nuclear industry's largesse, Merck's marketing and cigarett

- The PR People in the Lost Chapter on Iran / Contra To understand how the Bush administration "could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs," look to the 1980s, suggests Robert Parry. On C

- A Flood of Evidence "Beyond the Phony 'Debate': Government Science and the Climate Crisis" will be one of the topics discussed at "Rejuvenating Public Sector Science," a day-long conference sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

- Who Really Benefits from Voluntary Corporate Codes of Conduct? A recent investigation by BBC Television showed British American Tobacco (BAT) violating its own voluntary marketing and advertising codes in Malawi, Mauritius and Nigeria. Contrary to BAT's public pronouncements that it doesn't w

- Hounded Fox hunting is now banned in Britain. Yet hunting goes on, and hunt saboteurs become hunt monitors as they film and provide evidence that the illegal activity continues. One thing that has changed since the ban is protesters can't

- The Fuit of all Evil Protesters blockade the depot of Carmel Agrexco, a company part owned by the Israeli government which imports produce grown illegally by Israelis on occupied Palestinian territory.

- SchNEWS in Brief Some short bulletins from SchNEWS, including Derbyshire open-cast coal mine protest, Bath Bomb, Nerve, and Crap Arrest Of THe Week.

- Starving for Justice Survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, continue their struggle for justice after a 500 miles walk to the capital Delhi to speak with the Prime Minister, leading to actions and seven on indefi