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01-10-2011 02:38 AM “The Patriot Act was similar to legislation carried out by the Nazis because essentially it was using terrorism in both cases as an excuse to strip civil liberties that were enjoyed in both countries; in the United States and Germany,” Phillip Giraldi said in an interview...

01-04-2011 01:50 AM 'The cholera outbreak has now spread to all provinces in the Dominican Republic as an outbreak of the water-borne disease in neighboring Haiti has claimed thousands of lives. "The number of people receiving medical treatment in Haiti has exceeded 150,000 and over 3,300...

Washington’s Blog Nov 6, 2010 Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV: “The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and...

10-30-2010 01:47 AM 'The Texas-based Halliburton Company has confessed to pouring a cement mix down BP's Gulf of Mexico oil well without testing the stability of its exact composition. The company, which was BP's cementing contractor, came under increased scrutiny when investigators from the...

Press TV Oct 8, 2010 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says half of people in Europe and America are suspicious of the September 11 events in the United States. “Many in the West blame the US government in the occurrence of the September 11 incident,” IRNA reported...

Press TV August 22, 2010 According to an article appearing in the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, the negative consequences of the global financial crisis include a widened social class rift and the elimination of the middle class in the US. The article states that many Americans are beginning...

07-13-2010 12:40 AM 'New studies show that aspartame may increase the risk of premature births. Research funded by the European Union found a correlation between the amount of diet drink consumed and an early birth among the 60,000 women studied, The Mail on Sunday reported on July 10. The...

Press TV April 29, 2010 An airline pilot wrongfully imprisoned and accused of training hijackers in the 9/11 terrorist attacks finally won his battle for compensation this week. Lotfi Raissi, and Algerian-born commercial airline pilot who was trained in the US and living in Britain, was the...

Press TV April 17, 2010 NATO statistics show that Afghan civilians killed by foreign forces have more than doubled this year compared to the same period a year ago. According to the figures released by the International Security Assistance Forces, NATO troops killed 72 Afghan civilians in...

Press TV April 3, 2010 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned against a reported Israeli plan to launch a second military offensive against Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli deputy prime minister Silvan Shalom said Friday that a military operation will soon be launched in response to...

Press TV Tuesday, March 30, 2010 While cola is becoming the most popular drink these days, a new study links the heavy consumption of the beverage with fertility problems in men. According to the study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, men drinking more than one quart of...

Press TV March 30, 2010 An Iranian health official has warned about a new wave of swine flu across the country in the spring with predicted A-H1N1 virus mutation. Director of the Health Ministry’s Flu Program and Border Health Care Mahmoud Soroush told IRINN on Monday that a new wave of H1N1...

Press TV March 28, 2010 The number of US troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first quarter of 2010 compared with the same period last year. According to Pentagon figures, some 77 American service members have been killed so far in 2010, the Associated Press reported on...

China seeks Russia alliance to counter US dominance Looking to form a counterbalance to the power of the US, Beijing called on Moscow, as one of the emerging market economies, to enter into an alliance with China seeking to increase their leverage in global affairs. :coffee: read full...

Press TV Friday, March 26, 2010 NATO has rejected an appeal made by Russia for eradication of opium fields in Afghanistan, arguing that the sole source of income in the region cannot be removed. Addressing a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on Wednesday, head of Russia’s Federal Drug...

7 more US banks close amid financial woes Sat, 20 Mar 2010 Press TV Seven more banks have been shut down in the United States, bringing the number of bank failures there to 37 so far this year amid unemployment and bad debts. The closures took place in the states of Alabama, Georgia...

Press TV March 20, 2010 Seven more banks have been shut down in the United States, bringing the number of bank failures there to 37 so far this year amid unemployment and bad debts. The closures took place in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Utah, Ohio, and Minnesota, The Federal Deposit...

Stephen C. Webster Raw Story March 17, 2010 The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit after federal agencies neglected to answer a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents pertaining to the legal basis for the military’s Predator drone program. The request specifically...

Press TV Sunday, March 14, 2010 Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has rejected pressure by the US and a number of other nations for a faster appreciation of the Chinese currency. “A country’s exchange rate policy and its exchange rates should depend on its national economy and economic...

Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Joe Biden went to Israel not for the sake of peace or even to admonish the country for its plan to build 1,600 illegal settlement homes in East Jerusalem. Biden went there to talk about bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. Israeli UN...