Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.
Drug firms raise prices in face of health reform
In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists’
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
WFP: 1 Billion Hungry People in World
The World Food Program says for the first time in history, the number of hungry people worldwide will exceed one billion this year.
The huge amount of people facing food insecurity has prompted the U.N. organization to appeal to individuals for the first time. WFP launched the Billion for a Billion online campaign Saturday to get one billion people living in the developed world to give $1 a week to the campaign at www.wfp.org/1billion.
Attention loss feared as high-tech rewires brain
In today's fast-paced, multitasking world, it's easy to get hooked on technology that's always online, delivering a steady stream of texts and tweets.
But some mental health experts fear that a growing technology addiction, perhaps accelerated by the popularity of smart phones and social networks, will lead to a breakdown of interpersonal relationships and an increase in attention deficit disorder.
Who are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other accused terrorists?
Mohammed was subject to some of the harshest interrogation tactics used by US officials. He was reportedly waterboarded 183 times.
He claimed responsibility for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Richard Reid's failed shoe bomber operation, the nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia, planning for a second-wave of attacks on the US...an assassination plot against former President Carter and former President Clinton [and seven other major acts of international terrorism.]
TVNL Comment: What? No claim to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? What a sad joke this trial will be. Someone has to pay, and this pathetic madman will be the one to do just that.
Palestinian Families at Risk of Being Forced to Leave Homes
Save the Children UK warned that intolerable living conditions are driving families living in areas of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) that the UN identifies as 'high risk' to abandon their land and homes, even though most will be worse off once they do so.
In a research conducted by Save the Children UK shows that families living in 'high risk' areas, which include most of the rural West Bank and Gaza border area or 'buffer zone', face hardships such as daily shortages of food and water, high unemployment, insecurity, separation from families and access to schooling.
Why was Abu Zubaydah left off Holder's list of '9/11 plotters'?
Conspicuously missing from the group of high-value terror suspects is Abu Zubaydah. For those who have been following Zubaydah’s case, his exclusion isn’t surprising.
Zubaydah did not have operational ties to 9/11, the analyst told me. But in 2003, that same analyst told me that Zubaydah, during the course of his interrogation, had provided the “Rosetta Stone” of what really happened in the run-up to the 9/11 terror attacks.
Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism
America's leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an "organised campaign" of false allegations and misinformation, including "extremely personal attacks" on its staff, in an attempt to discredit the group over its reports of war crimes in Gaza.
Did Britain collude with US in abuse of Iraqis?
Claims that British soldiers recreated the torture conditions of Abu Ghraib to commit the sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi civilians are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.
The fresh allegations raise important questions about collusion between Britain and America over the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners during the insurgency. In one case, British soldiers are accused of piling bodies of Iraqi prisoners on top of each other and subjecting them to electric shocks, an echo of the abuse at the notorious US detention centre at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
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