Various governments including the United States are taking great pains to follow money trails that lead to terrorist groups in an effort to understand who they are connected too and who is feeding their operations. The monitoring is broad based and not limited to foreign nations but also on large corporations and conglomerates whose...

Two former Takata employees, now whistleblowers say Takata knew in 2004 and ran tests that confirmed it then, they say. The Japanese manufacturer Takata actually secretly conducted tests on 50 airbags recovered from scrapyards, say the two former employees involved in the tests, one of whom was a senior member of its testing lab....

Truthout has interviewed Guy McPherson, a professor emeritus of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology with the University of Arizona. He fears that climate disruption is already so serious that humans are in the process of causing their own extinction. His near term indicator includes the massive loss of Arctic sea ice. This,...

The front runner to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is Michele Flournoy, 53, presently chief executive officer of the Center forΠNew American Security, a think tank she co-founded in Washington. Her work history at the Defense Department goes back to the 1990s and if nominated and confirmed she would be the first...

President Barack Obama is about to invoke his executive authority to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation. Millions more will remain in limbo. This action is expected to start a constitutional battle in Congress involving a Federal lawsuit to declare his actional unconstitutional and also probable impeachment proceedings against...

With President Obama poised to sign an Executive Order halting deportation proceeding for young law abiding undocumented immigrants and with upcoming Senate approval hearings on the President's appointment of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as successor to Attorney General Eric Holder, the stage is being set for impeachment proceedings. The issue being positioned is whether...

There is a superb article in the recent edition of Rolling Stone entitled The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JP Morgan Chase's Worst Nightmare. It's about a woman named Alayne Fleischmann a young lawyer who worked for JP Morgan and was considered the major witness in the government's case against the bank. That's the case...

A jury has ruled that Trinity Industries (TRN) deliberately withheld information from the U.S. Government about cost-savings to its highway guardrail system that made that system more dangerous which defrauded the government out of $175 million.The case was brought by Joshua Harman, a maker and installer of guardrail systems in Virginia. Trinity made secret...

2,610 hospitals will have their Medicare reimbursements cut because too many of their patients were readmitted within 30 days according to Kaiser Health News. For each Medicare beneficiary treated from Oct 1 to Sept. 30 next year, the reimbursements will be cut. some will be cut 3% and nearly 500 will lose 1% or...

A study and report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) say that pilots tested positive for drugs four times more often following fatal accidents in 2012 than in 1990. The Board found more use of drugs among aviation pilots including a spike in the use of cocaine and marijuana. In...