This Sunday, September 17, 2006 marks the 219th anniversary of the signing of, “The greatest piece of work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man,” as Prime Minister William Gladstone of England observed. William Pitt, a mem
Whilst Israel’s close relationship with the US is well known, and has long been the focus of debate, no comprehensive discussion of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war should allow the role of the British government to pass without comment.
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A Baath party official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told WorldNetDaily, "We in the government are 100 percent sure America was behind this attack, which is not the same as other attacks by Islamic groups."
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses the errors committed by the Bush administration in its war on terror, the disastrous campaign in Iraq, and the risks of a global uprising against inequality.
Neither the elected president, Felipe Calderón, nor anyone, can dig us out of the hole caused by false money as long as the root cause of the problem is not addressed, no matter how intelligent and honest the administration of the next president may
The owner of DataUSA Inc., a company that conducted political polls for the campaigns of President Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman and other candidates, pleaded guilty to fraud for making up survey and poll results.
While human space flight has certainly changed the way mankind looks at itself in the cosmos, NASA has also been incorrectly credited to being the inventor of numerous widgets ranging from personal computers to freeze-dried ice cream.
The claim that terrorist leader Mohamed Atta met in Prague with an Iraqi spy a few months before 9/11 was never substantiated, but that didn't stop the White House from trying to insert the allegation in presidential speeches, according to classi
JERUSALEM — Israel's military has ordered a series of investigations to examine why its armed forces were unable to crush Hezbollah militants during a month of fighting in Lebanon.
It is sad to watch a once-great company decline. Jobs are sacrificed, historic facilities closed, and an atmosphere of failure and fear usually permeates the surviving operations. When a company needs to sell-off profitable crown jewels
California's giant fund CalPERS plans to sink a big chunk of its $210 billion pension pot into commodities, brushing aside warnings that the five-year boom in resources has already peaked. Charles P. Valdes, CalPERS chairman, said the fund aimed
The US economy is poised to soften gently but a housing crash is a potential threat and the Federal Reserve will have to stay vigilant on inflation, the IMF said. (Keep those printing presses running) In its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook
Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column. He identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said she recommended the mission to Ni
A young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire at a Montreal college, slaying a woman and wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him. "The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care. The
The Bush administration is objecting to a groundbreaking treaty that set up a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia.
Under the treaty signed Friday, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan committed themselves not to pr
Numerous breaches of the security of voting machines that could call into question the veracity of the vote happened in Tuesday’s Arizona primary election. That’s the bad news. Volunteering as a poll observer I visited nine different polling places
US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter.
"Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior," Devaney will tell the subcommittee. Devaney was asked to investigate a giant giveaway to the major oil companies.
A vote for George Washington could easily be converted to a vote for Benedict Arnold on an electronic voting machine and neither the voter, nor the election officials administering the election would ever know what happened.
Air America Radio will announce a major restructuring, which is expected to include a bankruptcy filing. Air America could remain on the air under the deal, but significant personnel changes are already in the works.
One of the highest-level executives at Verizon Communications alleged to be providing the NSA with customer phone records under contract and without a warrant—has strong, decades-long ties to the CIA, Congress and Department of Justice.
The National Security Agency has taken the unusual move of sending members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee a list of "approved talking points" regarding its warrantless eavesdropping program. [trained chimps]
Police found 69 bullet-riddled corpses scattered in and around Baghdad of men killed in apparent sectarian attacks as two car bombs left another 28 people dead.
In the past 24 hours, 64 bodies were recovered from across Baghdad, with most of the v
A bill backed by President George W. Bush to enable a court review of his domestic spying program won the approval on Wednesday of a U.S. Senate panel under election-year pressure to safeguard civil liberties.
Texas' highest criminal appeals court said it would consider reinstating a dropped conspiracy charge against former House majority leader Tom DeLay, further delaying his trial on felony money laundering and conspiracy counts.
The federal budget deficit, helped by a surge in government revenue, is running 14.1 percent below the pace of last year, the government reported Wednesday.
Scientists have found the last refuge of the Neanderthals, revealing how they eked out an existence for thousands of years longer than had been thought. The evidence from a cave in Gibraltar that they were much more tenacious than previously
Suppose the US government is conducting a warrantless surveillance program listening to domestic calls in clear violation of the law. Going to court wouldn't get very far. Why not? The government would simply assert the state secrets privilege,