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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged China to speed up reforms of its economy and said the booming country would be the biggest beneficiary of opening its capital markets to foreign investment.
Four months after Iraq's unity government took office, hope is turning to disappointment. Key U.S. leaders are hinting that Iraq's leaders must make hard decisions and soon if they expect American support to continue.
Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete skeleton of a 3-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by “Lucy.” The discovery should fuel a contentious debate about whether this species, which walked upright, also
A man who was convicted in 1990 of raping and murdering a high school classmate when he was 16 was freed from prison after DNA evidence implicated another man who authorities said confessed to the crime.
Others say losing the program would be another "unsettling sign" of erosion in US-Russia nuclear security cooperation. "If we eliminate this program we will be losing a major nonproliferation agreement," says Kenneth Luongo, ex
Members of Congress are looking for answers to very concrete questions on how the CIA questions terror suspects. Is it ever appropriate, for example, to put a naked detainee in a cold cell and douse him with water? If so, for how long? Should inte
Pat Buchanan vs Newt Gingrich - John McCain - Rudy Giuliani
The Pentagon's top special operations policy-maker is quitting in a move that several Bush administration sources say is the first negative fallout from a major reorganization of advisers in the office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
80% of medical spending takes place in the last 20 years of life. Unless people save throughout their lives for the infirmities of old age, they will not have the means to obtain medical care when they need it the most.
With increased incursions and violence along the Arizona - Mexican border and the increased number of deaths in the southwest desert and now on the highways, individuals need to look at the principles America was founded upon for a solution to illega
All summer, federal-dom has been abuzz over a steamy US Postal Inspector's General's report accusing the agency's former public affairs chief of heavy drinking, expense account chicanery and sexual harassment. But who knew
Interesting site with a subcription, but one just needs to check out the archives, and read how this guy is nailing it big time when it comes to the experts who cook the books. Enjoy
Entered By: Jean Carbonneau
Washington's Enron-style accounting is now so widespread and so deeply ingrained, the nation could be bankrupt and not even know it. You go to work. You save and invest. You vote in the November election. (Not me) And you assume
Conventional wisdom says working more hours is better and being paid more is better but, with respect to legislative pay, conventional wisdom is wrong. We shouldn’t want our legislators to work more. We already have too many laws.
A French produced film exploring the the case of Sibel Edmonds, the former contract translator, and real pain in the ass to the FBI, and the Bush Adminstration. Also, includes a quiz about the history of her case. Try it.
On Monday September, 25th, at 7:30, the new documentary STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote, A Film by EMMY-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman,
There is so much political corruption on Capitol Hill that the FBI has had to triple the number of squads investigating lobbyists, lawmakers, and influence peddlers, the Daily News has learned. For decades, only one squaud in Washington handled corr
Few Americans served in Iraq longer than Army Reserve Capt. A. Heather Coyne. She arrived in Baghdad with the 354th Civil Affairs Brigade in April 2003 and was in the military in Baghdad until June of the following year. She stayed on to head the
Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh served in the CIA for 15 years and retired on June 30, 2006, as the Director of Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, the intelligence community's premier group dedicated to the issue of political Islam. His research h
Part II of Imperialism 101 focusing on the war in Iraq
The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting the south of Lebanon, has led to calls on Washington to impose a moratorium on sales of the weapons to Israel.
Former Israel Defense Forces commandos secretly trained Kurdish soldiers in Northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations. Former Israeli special forces soldiers crossed into Iraq from Turkey in 2004 to trai
Scientists could generate a black hole as often as every second when the world's most powerful particle accelerator comes online in 2007. This potential "black hole factory" has raised fears that a stray black hole could devour our p
Discovered just 11 years ago, a class of oddball "failed stars" continues to baffle as well as enlighten astronomers. Now researchers have spotted for the first time one of these failed stars, called a brown dwarf, with a companion planet—b
Her husband had died. He was the love of her long life, a short, dapper man who had worked as a bartender and waiter at some of the city's larger hotels and was active in Jewish activities. They buried him in a Jewish cemetery outside the city.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will tell President Bush that the proposed Palestinian unity government will recognize Israel's right to exist and previous agreements between the PLO and Israel," PA officials told The Jerusalem
The administration of US President George W Bush when faced with a public outcry over Iraq, has with great effectiveness disseminated expertly crafted, razor-sharp talking points into the ether to persuade voters to believe what they hear
Tactical nuclear weapons would be required to penetrate the defenses Iran has constructed around its nuclear facilities, according to Col. (res.) Shlomo Mofaz, an international consultant on terrorism and intelligence and a research fellow at the Ins
President Bush’s policies in the Middle East are “moving the world toward war,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, maintaining that Iran was a peaceful nation that merely wanted to be left alone to “stand on its [own] feet.”
Hidden in a wooden chest in the heart of a monastery in Udupi, India, an ancient Hindu manuscript has been deteriorating bit by bit over the last 700 years. Now with the help of modern imaging technologies, scientists are illuminating the seemingly i
