Current News Headlines

These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:

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Robert Iafolla

The network is incomprehensively vast, spanning nearly 1,300 government organizations and 2,000 private companies...the human instinct to seek status also fed the intelligence networks’ unprecedented bloat. “"If he has one, then I have to have one.’

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Washington Post

Thursday's Post reported about a growing controversy over the Justice Department's decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with

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Rawstory

The president of the Council of Foreign Relations is telling President Barack Obama that he needs to drastically scale down his ambitions in Afghanistan. Richard Haass called Afghanistan "very much Barack Obama's war of choice." Haass seemed to be ec

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News Link

A Baltimore family is raising the issue after their 12-year-old daughter was pulled out of line in Tampa and subjected to what they say was an embarrassing and unhealthy scan. The girl was traveling with an adult friend of the family, not her parents

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ABC News

But it wasn't his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube a we

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Max Blumenthal

On July 18, a bombshell report appeared in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot. The was buried on page 8 as a small news item, stated that 550 officers and soldiers who participated in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009 have

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Zero Hedge

As everyone knows from elementary chemistry courses, gold is the most inert metal in the world - it does not rust, nor corrode. Yet this is precisely what is happening to thousands of (allegedly) .999 pure "St. George" coins.

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Arizona Republic

The National Guard troops assigned to the Arizona border will begin to arrive Aug. 1, and the federal government is sending other reinforcements to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and narcotics entering the state, Homeland Security Secretary Jane

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Rense.com

Leaks from the sea floor are appearing and growing in number, making it clear that the BP Deepwater Horizon well is gravely damaged. That being the case, it is obvious that any effort to restrict the flow of oil from the top of the well, by increasin

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Guardian.co.uk/

The boxes are believed to contain thousands of manuscripts by Kafka and Brod, including letters, journals, sketches and drawings, some of which have never been published and could provide literary detetectives an insight into one of the 20th...

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henrymakow.com

According to Matt Simmons, former head of the Petroleum Review Board, the oil gusher in the Gulf region has not been capped, that the cap shown on television and the rest of the news is actually just a cap of a reserve well that is miles away...

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Network World

More than 25,000 people and organizations have filed comments in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission inquiry into whether it should reclassify broadband as a regulated service, with the overwhelming majority appearing to favor such a move.

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McClatchy News

The U.S. will announce hundreds of millions of dollars worth of civilian aid projects for Pakistan in an attempt to demonstrate that Washington has broadened its relationship with the country, away from just anti-terror cooperation to helping the peo

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CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down

SARA! No, not Sarah Connor, who was mercilessly pursued in the Terminator series by a self-aware surveillance network named Skynet. We’re talking about the “Safer Arizona Roads Alliance,” the astroturf answer by photo radar peddlers such as American

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Darcy Olsen & Lisa Snell 5-1-2006 ReasonFoundation

Proposals for universal preschool and all-day kindergarten are an increasingly popular policy solution for everything from low academic achievement, to reducing crime, to lowering the dropout rate. Inception - the planting of ideas in young minds<