A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.
The video was shot by a passer-by and was obtained by the lawyer for ...[
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Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Canada's banking system is often lauded for being one of the world's safest. B ...[
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Wall Street banks have silently been taking over the majority shares of ammunition, warfare equipment manufacturers and mercenary armies ('private security contractors') like Blackwater.
A Daily KOs article reveals that Wall Street banks have used privat ...[
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Over 700 students have been arrested in Canada during the latest night of rallies against tuition fee hikes and the adoption of controversial bill that is widely seen as a tool to limit freedom of speech, association and assembly.
Police in Montreal disp ...[
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New reports have spotlighted the role of the West, Israel and some Middle Eastern countries in fanning the flames of the bloody unrest in Syria.
According Syrian sources, Israeli airplanes are smuggling weapons into Iraq's Kurdistan region, which are th ...[
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Academic freedom is under attack in the U.S. Imagine a professor showing the Oscar nominated film 5 Broken Cameras and then having his entire class shut down because it's not pro-Israel.
After Professor Chehade’s in-class screening of the Oscar-nominate ...[
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One develops an odd liking for John McCain over time—attenuated but not grudging. The Republican senator who once found virtue bombing Vietnamese rice farmers reliably brings clarity to purposes the foreign policy clique shrouds in mists of good intent ...[
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s the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to Russia's western border? WikiLeaks has revealed a secret cable describing ...[
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The Syrian army secured the Crac des Chevaliers – one of greatest medieval castles in the world – on Friday after Assad's forces reclaimed the UNESCO World Heritage site from rebel fighters a day earlier.
The seizure of the castle is the latest in a n ...[
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Noam Chomsky interview on Silicon Valley, the Internet, Google, Wikileaks ...[
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