The Controversial Huffington Post-AOL Merger: 7 Questions That Matter

News that the Huffington Post had been bought by AOL, a company with more than $2.5 billion in revenue, for $315 million, almost all in cash, was quite a shock -- to the chattering classes, to millions of HuffPo's readers and to commenters. It was also a shock to the site's thousands of bloggers, who have been providing free content for the privilege of being part of the public discourse and promoting their efforts at a place they knew to be independent and welcoming of strong opinions.

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The Burying of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

Late last month, the US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission issued the first official report on the causes of the 2008 financial meltdown. The report is devastating.

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Lawmakers Oppose Federal Bailout for States

The new Republican-led House is showing no appetite for making federal taxpayers help state and local governments cope with widespread budget problems. Even some Democrats are wary, underscoring the impact of Washington's crushing budget deficits.

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About 340,000 of Common Cancer Cases Preventable in U.S. – Lifestyle Factors Key to Saving Lives

Latest cancer preventability data released to mark World Cancer Day.

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WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices

US diplomat convinced by Saudi expert that reserves of world's biggest oil exporter have been overstated by nearly 40%

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Asian Bank Warns of Mass Climate Change Migrations

Asian Bank Warns of Mass Climate Change Migrations

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'Death By Medicine' Documentary Wins 'Best of Fest' Award

We're thrilled to announce that our recently completed documentary 'Death By Medicine' has taken the award for 'Best Independent Documentary' at this year's Best of Fest Festival! The award distiguishes DBM as one of the top 5% of over 37,000 Independent films this year. Quite a distinction! - Gary

HIV” – A Case of Mistaken Identity, Political Profiteering, and Pharmaceutical Murder

The AIDS mainstream butters its significant pile of bread with the notion that there is in existence a single particle, which they call “HIV,” which is known to do one thing, and that is to “kill T-Cells.” But behind the public pronouncements of HIV-AIDS-sex-panic-mania, the details in the published research paint a different, and frankly more interesting picture.

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Why Another Financial Crash is Certain

On August 9, 2007, an incident took place at a bank in France that touched-off a financial crisis that that would eventually wipe out more than $30 trillion in capital and thrust the world into the deepest slump since the Great Depression. The event was recounted in a speech by Pimco's managing director Paul McCulley, at the 19th Annual Hyman Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies. Here's an excerpt from McCulley's speech:

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If Progressives Wanted to Win

As we mark the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, his most important legacy has gone largely overlooked. Reagan helped to put a caricature of politics at the center of the national debate, and it remains there to this day. In Reagan's caricature, the central divide between progressives and conservatives is that progressives trust the government to make key decisions on production and distribution, while conservatives trust the market.

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