Well, the cat is out of the bag. Saturday’s district conventions in Louisiana give the Ron Paul campaign 74% of the delegates headed into the June state convention where the delegation to the Republican National Convention in Tampa will be finally d
It is confirmed that Ron Paul supporter Russ Millete was voted in as chair. (Note that according to AK Republican rules he will not have full power until Feb. 2013). Co-chair is RP supporter Deb Brown.
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.
As many as 200 activists, some chanting "go Joe, go Joe," rallied in Arizona on Saturday to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is facing a federal racial-profiling probe for his police sweeps against illegal immigrants.
Residents of a London apartment block have been told that surface-to-air missiles were likely to be installed on the building to help combat airborne terror threats to the Olympic Games.
Tens of thousands of Spaniards streamed into the streets nationwide Sunday to slam Madrid’s austerity program, which will take a $13 billion bite out of the country's education and healthcare budgets.
British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Sunday he had struck no secret deals with media baron Rupert Murdoch whereby policy was traded for his newspapers' political support.
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, World Socialist Web
Accusations that the Syrian government is either wholly or mainly responsible for breaches of the United Nations’ ceasefire are meant to provide a pretext for military intervention by the imperialist powers and their proxies.
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
One of the largest supermarket chains in Britain has announced that it intends to boycott Israeli agricultural exporters that market produce from the West Bank settlements.
Gadget giant Apple is avoiding billions of dollars in taxes by setting up small offices around the world to collect and invest the company's profits, according to The New York Times.
Seattle-area tactical officers who slogged for hours over dangerously steep, muddy ground to find him were prepared. They pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, set off explosives along the top of the bunker
Maryland’s top law enforcement officials are pushing back against a recent Court of Appeals decision that prohibits DNA collection from suspects charged — but not yet convicted — of violent crimes, saying the ruling will allow dangerous criminals to
Federal prosecutors on Friday acknowledged errors in the scientific evidence that helped send a Washington man to prison for 28 years for murder and took the extraordinary step of agreeing to have his conviction overturned.
The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police as a tagger and was hit with a stun gun over and over.
A jury wanted the city to pay for a police officer using excessive force.
“Structuring,” as readers may recall, is the federal criminal offense of splitting up bank deposits so as to keep them under a threshold such as $10,000 above which banks have to report transactions to the government.
It was virtually impossible to imagine that a request from David Petraeus to Barack Obama for authority to target even more people in Yemen for death, without even knowing who they are, would be quickly and eagerly approved.
My mother-in-law was traveling home to Rhode Island from Washington Reagan airport when, passing through the TSA naked-porno machine, she triggered an alarm. My mother-in-law is 79-years-old, 4'11" and 110 pounds.
Regina Tasca is a “rogue cop” – and God bless her for it. Tasca is in the middle of disciplinary hearings that may result in her termination from the Bogota, New Jersey Police Department. She stands accused of “bizarre and outlandish” behavior in two
My nominal superiors bragged to each other about the dents their heavy aircraft aluminum flashlights had acquired. They were a new thing at the time and were used as batons. Debate whether it was more fun to beat up Mexicans
The Housing market is likely to remain weak and may take a generation or more to rebound, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller told Reuters Insider on Tuesday.
In the last few weeks there has been a virtual outcry on the internet by citizens who oppose the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA.) Yet despite citizen concern and opposition, the house still passed the bill by a margin of 248-16