The Global Report

Just over a year ago in Roane County, Tennessee, the biggest industrial waste spill in U.S. history occurred when a dam broke at the Tennessee Valley Authoritys Kingston power plant. More than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash flowed into a nearby community and into the Clinch and Emory rivers. ....

On Christmas Eve, the Obama administration pledged to provide unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The eleventh-hour move allows the government to exceed the current $400 billion cap on emergency aid without seeking permission from a bailout-weary Congress. ....

The United States is about to rapidly expand its program of arming and training Yemens security forces, which have come under sharp criticism for killing innocent people. Human Rights Watch says a grave ...

The United States has quietly opened a largely covert military front in Yemen, which is being accused of claiming a significant number of dead civilians, including children.

Guatemalas top human rights official has declared that the victims of one of the most shocking massacres in its countrys history will be paid $3 million to compensate for their suffering in Dos Erres in ...

The London Guardian reports that Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA. Less than a year ...

According to a former US official, the security contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan at a secret CIA airfield used for launching drone attacks, despite repeated government denials that the company is in the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be able to proceed with their lawsuit against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse. The Obama administration had urged the Supreme Court to reject the mens appeal.

A former Argentine navy captain known as the "blond angel of death" is now on trial with 16 other former police and military officers charged with crimes against humanity during Argentina's 1976-1983 "dirty war" against leftists.

Egypt has reportedly begun building an underground iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip, taking an extreme measure to end smuggling through tunnels there. Egyptian security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the wall project is under way. ...

Major television networks continue to host retired generals as military analysts without alerting viewers to their extensive ties to military contractors and the Pentagon.

The right-wing businessman just elected president of Honduras in a post-coup detat poll widely seen as fraudulent and illegitimate, Porfirio Lobo, was quick to announce that he wants political amnesty for all those involved in the coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.