I'm sure this retreat at the St. Regis Resort Monarch Beach is going to do wonders for our moribund economy. Revealed during a hearing on AIG at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Sen. Henry Waxman and others blasted AIG.

Lawsuits against the makers of faulty government-approved medical devices are already forbidden. Now companies that manufacture both prescription and over-the counter-drugs are asking the Supreme Court for the same protection. Outrageous!

Care2 does NOT have 8 million members. Please sign this petition asking Care2 Administration to remove old and fake profiles so that the site will be faster and much more user friendly...Please also forward to friends list. Thanks Ali x

A critical new congressional audit shows that the only thing Homeland Security civilian contractors don't do is swear in the new employess for whom they have written job descriptions, hired & oriented to new jobs. Kinda like the fox in the henhouse, no?

Bush wants to protect the telecoms that played ball. Crooks and liars and thieves and cheats all of them.

NY Times report on massive scandal involving American contracting officers who took money from Lee Dynamics International and then awarded them millions in contracts to build warehouses in Iraq

It was in 1977 that campaigners first called for a boycott of Nestle because of its aggressive marketing of formula milk in the developing world. Thirty years on, have Nestle and other baby milk firms cleaned up their act? Special Report by J Moorhead