Editorial comment: The article below, reproduced from BBC News, notes that Willard Mitt Romney opposes gay marriage. [Note to those who want to know: Mitt is his full middle name; it is not short for Mittens.] He does suggest they should have some limited rights, however. And here's where the... » read this article

12 May 2012 Speculation by a derivatives trader in London has produced a $2 billion trading loss for the US financial services giant JP Morgan Chase, the bank acknowledged late Thursday. The loss is one of the largest since the financial collapse of 2008, when two major Wall Street institutions,... » read this article

Quite incredibly, the EPA issued a positive report on May 1, 2012 regarding the safety and toxicity of various dispersants used in the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Included in this assessment was the use of Corexit. This report “indicated that all eight dispersants had roughly the same toxicity," and all... » read this article

Editor's Note: Steve Rhode who runs the blog, Get Out of Debt shares the story of an aging, jobless grandmother, Janis. The story shows just how brutally the US government treats its citizens today with their new "austerity measures." - LMB I’m a Grandmother and Getting my Social Security Check... » read this article

12 May 2012 This weekend, more than 200,000 unemployed workers in eight US states will be abruptly cut off from extended federal unemployment benefits, the result of an agreement between President Barack Obama and the Republican Party earlier this year. Many of these workers will be thrown directly into poverty,... » read this article

Women wearing the traditional dresses of the Venezuelan plains region – a skirt with stripes of yellow, blue and red like the national flag and a white off-the-shoulder blouse – greeted the more than 2,000 visitors to the Residence of the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Washington,... » read this article

Tomorrow, May 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bolivarian Hall in Washington, DC, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela hosts a lecture by the Wayuu activist and filmmaker David Hernández Palmar entitled, “Indigenous participation in the exercise of the right to communication, information and freedom of... » read this article

The paid informant who helped orchestrate the FBI sting that resulted in the arrest of five anarchists for allegedly plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge is a convicted felon who was arrested on bad check and theft charges in the midst of his cooperation with federal investigators, The Smoking... » read this article

Election of anti-austerity François Hollande in France and hung parliament in Greece create uncertainty about eurozone debt crisis Asian stock markets have been pummelled by election results in France and Greece that have heightened uncertainty about Europe's ability to solve its debt crisis. The results threaten the fragile political consensus... » read this article

Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France’s presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe and promised to start a pushback against German-led austerity policies. Hollande led conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.3% to 48.7% with 83% of votes counted, the Interior... » read this article

Editor's Note: We've got no truck with Hollande and he's anything but a "Socialist" - but gotta say that few tears will fall seeing this pig who led the war against the hijab and Africans and Muslims in general - and the war against sovereign state of Libya - go down. Reuters... » read this article

Asking Obama to interfere in Venezuela   3 May 2012 - Orvex sent a letter to the American proxy, Barack Obama, in which it assures that there is an undeclared civil war in Venezuela, since supposedly the National Government has murdered thousands of people with the subterfuge of the common underworld.... » read this article

1 May 2012 The International Labor Organization, in its annual report on global labor conditions issued Monday, forecast that more than 200 million workers will be unemployed in 2012. The United Nations agency estimated that 50 million jobs had been wiped out since the 2008 financial crisis, and predicted no... » read this article

FORT MEADE, Md. -- A military judge rejected defense motions Thursday to consolidate some of the 22 charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history. Col. Denise Lind said she would rule late in the afternoon on a defense motion to dismiss... » read this article

26 April 2012 Rupert Murdoch is to complete two days of testimony before the Leveson Inquiry into the British media today. But even as questioning of the multi-billionaire began, evidence submitted by his son, James, had forced the resignation of one ministerial adviser, and forced Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to... » read this article

Greece continues along a path toward self-sufficiency that could very well see them break free from their debt servitude. In the wake of their pillaging by international financiers, Greeks who have realized that protesting is likely to bring little relief have begun to implement barter systems to meet their local... » read this article

23 April 2012 Two key features of the world economy emerged clearly from the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, held in Washington over the weekend. Firstly, the global financial system remains extremely fragile, with a crisis in Spain, Italy or some other country threatening... » read this article

Axis of Logic says ... Take it off John. Take it all off!! c'mon all you travelers who have been subdued, harrassed and humiliated so often in the airports of the land of the free, how can you not love this guy... the faces on the "airport security" personnel are almost... » read this article

(AP) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—Several thousand farmworkers occupied 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land across Honduras as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government, activists and officials said Wednesday. Police and soldiers read an eviction notice later in the day and roughly 1,500 farmworkers peacefully left a large sugar... » read this article

Editor's Note: Alain Juppe, Frances FM said: "It is incomprehensible and unacceptable that soldiers in the Afghan army murder French soldiers." He called the latest attack an assassination. What is "incomprehensible" is Juppe's level of ignorance. These types of attacks and killings of the US and NATO occupying forces by Afghan soldiers... » read this article