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With South Carolina Victory, Gingrich Rides Adelson Money Train Against Obama

Gingrich carries some of the heaviest political baggage this country...

(CHICAGO) - Newt Gingrich is the current holder of the Republican crown. Saturday night, NBC projected Gingrich as the winner in the South Carolina Republican primary over his closet rival, Mitt Romney.

With 94% of the votes counted, Gingrich was winning by a 40% to 27% margin over Romney, much larger than advance polls has predicted.

Monsanto Attempts to Lockout Socially Responsible Shareholder at Annual Meeting

Shareholder's Resolution Would Require Chemical Giant to Study Risks of its Genetically Engineered Crops.

(ST. LOUIS PRNewswire-USNewswire/) - Monsanto officers and shareholders will vote Tuesday on a shareholder proposal to create a study of "material financial risks or operational impacts" tied to its chemical products and GMO foods.

The proposal represents one of the strongest signals to date that the biotech food conglomerate is facing growing consumer, legal, and regulatory uncertainties.

Prescription Drug Abuse Battle in Nassau County Turns Deadly, Reaches Epidemic Proportions

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." Benjamin Franklin

(SEAFORD, NY) - Nassau County, New York has sounded the alarm -- they are experiencing a prescription drug abuse problem and are "taking the lead" in the nation and are forming an allegiance.

This joint effort is with Nassau County's Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse Prevention Task Force, InfraGard (an FBI public/private partnership) as well as the Long Island Pharmacy Crimes Task Force to run a Pharmacist Security Summit.

Capitalism 1, United States 0

Steve Jobs to Barack Obama: "Those jobs aren't coming back."

(Calgary, Alberta) - Here is an uncomfortable truth: America is great at capitalism when there is no competition or weak competitors.

The fundamental problem with Americans today, is that its middle class has been trained to consume products and eat tons of junk food, while growing up through the decades after the Second World War, when global competition did not exist to any significant degree.

Complaint in U.N. Alleges U.S. Interfered with Spanish Torture Investigation

U.S. and Spanish Authorities Attempted to Stop Cases Seeking Accountability of U.S. Officials for Torture and Unlawful Killing

(MADRID, NEW YORK, BERLIN) - Constitutional Rights groups submitted evidence from Wikileaks cables obtained that show U.S. and Spanish officials seeking to shield Americans from criminal prosecution for torture and unlawful killing.

The complaint focuses on three criminal cases currently before the Spanish courts in which all potential defendants are U.S. citizens.

Precedent-Setting Human Trafficking Case

Human trafficking also involves violations of other laws, including labor and immigration codes and laws against kidnaping, slavery, false imprisonment, assault, battery, pandering, fraud, and extortion.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - When most people think of human trafficking, they envision victims trafficked into the international sex trade.

Reactor Reax- Roundup of Nuclear-Related Stories

The latest stories about nuclear power and energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This week in Reactor Reax, activists in Iowa say future plans for nuclear power should be skipped.

At UN Despite Ban`s Claims, Doubts on Yemen, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Buckpass on S. Sudan

On accountability, Ban's UN does not practice it.

(UNITED NATIONS) - Touting the rule of law at the UN on Thursday, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claimed to oppose amnesties and support international prosecutions, saying that people want accountability and transparency.

But after Ban spoke with Yemen strongman Ali Saleh on November 23, Inner City Press asked him if he had raised to Saleh his push for the immunity he is now in the process of obtaining.

Merkley Statement on Second Anniversary of Citizens United

Supreme Court decision creates “government by and for the powerful”

(PORTLAND) - Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley issued a statement Friday on the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision allowing unlimited secret donations by corporations in elections.

“Our nation is unique in world history in that it was founded on the simple idea that the people are in charge.

Iran War: US Eyes Mideast Gendarme Role

Washington has been acting very strangely lately.

(TEHRAN) - The temptation of attacking Iran long entertained by Washington and Israel is gradually crystallizing into a reality of fear and angst and has already become an alarmingly worrisome idea even for those who are wont to see the glass half full.

Amidst an escalating crisis following an exchange of threats between Washington and Tehran, US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey has visited Israel to discuss what is claimed to be an effort to stop a possible Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites.