Climate change cover-up? You better believe it By David BielloWas Sen. James Inhofe right when he declared 2009 the year of the climate contrarian? A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists—including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—while also exposing what looks like a failure... Read Full Story

Health Reform: Insights from Around the World November 30, 2009 Authors: Cathy Schoen, M.S., Karen Davis, Ph.D., Robin Osborn, M.B.A.The United States stands at the brink of a historic change that would remove financial barriers to health insurance coverage and ensure access to essential health care services. Enactment of health reform legislation would enable the U.S. to join the ranks of major industrialized countries that offer their people a system of health insurance coverage. Most of t... Read Full Story

"Only The Super Rich Can Save Us" Cindy Sheehan Interviews Ralph Nader Quote: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. " - - Barack Obama, October 27, 2007Posted November 30, 2009 - Listen to the entire show here.Source: Information Clearing House Read Full Story

The truth of UK's guilt over Iraq Until Chilcot hears UN weapons inspectors' testimony, the fiction of Britain honestly seeking a WMD smoking gun prevailsScott Ritter, Friday 27 November 2009With its troops no longer engaged in military operations inside Iraq, Great Britain has been liberated politically to conduct a postmortem of that conflict, including the sensitive issue of the primary justification used by then Prime Minister Tony Blair for going to war, namely Iraqi weapons of mass dest... Read Full Story

Projected Revenues From Marijuana TaxThere has been much commentary on the revenue that could be raised by legalizing and taxing marijuana: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Potential Tax Revenue From a Regulated Marijuana Market: A Meaningful Revenue Source Business Week, Legalize Marijuana for Tax Revenue Christian Science Monitor, A Marijuana Tax as the Next New Revenue Stream? Slate: A Toke and a Tax: If Governments Legalize Marijuana, How Much Revenue Can They Raise From It... Read Full Story

Climate Science Data SourcesThis page is a catalogue that will be kept up to date pointing to selected sources of code and data related to climate science. Source: realclimate.org Read Full Story

From November 30, 2009 Kaiser Health News:Seven Things You Didn't Know Were In The Senate Health BillKaiser Health News staff writers Mary Agnes Carey, Phil Galewitz and Laurie McGinley team up to look inside the Senate's pending health overhaul legislation. "Pay attention: The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" -- better known as the Senate health care overhaul bill – is chock full of interesting but little publicized provisions affecting consumers. Sure, the bill is mainly a bluep... Read Full Story

Blowback: From Latin America to AfghanistanBy: GRITtv Wednesday November 25, 2009The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras. Twenty years ago last week, SOA graduates massacred six Jesuit priests, their hous... Read Full Story

Who Needs God When We've Got Mammon? The world's most prosperous (and happiest) countries are also its least religious, new research states.By: David Villano | November 24, 2009 | Miller-Mccune Read Full Story

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams By David DeGraw, Amped Status. Posted November 21, 2009. Are we nearing a tipping point as rapacious elites push a heavily armed populace too far? Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from the Amped Status report, "The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society."The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate. You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but s... Read Full Story