European governments and intelligence services knew that the United States was transporting terrorism suspects across Europe (to torture) and chose to keep it secret, the European Parliament said on Wednesday.
The race for the White House is starting to heat up. Who will throw their hats into the ring? A look at who's in the race, who's out and who's somewhere in the middle for 2008.
A Saudi wing of al-Qaeda has issued a call for attacks on the oil facilities of nations which supply oil to the United States, inciting Canada, Venezuela and Mexico.
It appears that some are getting a whiff of what the Ron Paul campaign is going to look like. An asymmetrical grass roots campaign... a political insurgency if you will. We have been tracking the Pajamas Media Poll here not because we believe it to b
Imagine a city torn by sectarian strife. Competing death squads roam the streets; terrorists stage horrific attacks. Local authority is distrusted and weak; local populations protect the extremists in their midst, out of loyalty or fear. A bristling
(I asked the author for a copy to read so Powell and I could do a review of the book. I hope it is as good as some friends have said. It would be great to have a fun book to use as a tool to provide youth with the education they aren't getting)
The European parliament has approved a damning report on secret CIA flights, condemning member states which had colluded in the operations. (The scariest words were "European Parliament" - do they have any power? - I'll check)
The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year. (Well, they're not WMDs, but .50 caliber rifles are good enough for the Bush Administration to nuke Tehran)
A new recall drive targets Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a top contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Organizers oppose McCain's continued support of the unpopular Iraq war and consider him complicit...
There once were four individuals named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. Every day there was always an important job that needed to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. However, Anybody could have done the job, but Nobo
According to data compiled by the Pentagon, the Army and Marine Corps are letting in more recruits with criminal records.
That includes some with felony convictions.
The military routinely grants waivers to admit recruits who have criminal record
U.S. lawmakers squared off on Tuesday over President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Iraq, with Democrats declaring Americans had lost faith in the war and Republicans warning against undermining the U.S. struggle with terrorism.
The prisoner lived in isolation in a cell with only a steel slab for a bed. At times chained to the floor, deprived of light, sleep and heat. His interrogators injected him with "truth serum" and threatened him with execution. A U.S. citize
Porter Goss resigned shortly after ABC News reported that Foggo was under criminal investigation. At the time, officials close to Goss dismissed the investigation of Foggo "as existing only in the blogosphere" and tried to discourage ABC Ne
Reports of US soldiers confiscating around 100 Austrian-made sniper rifles in Iraq have not yet been confirmed by Austrian officials. Spokespersons for both the interior and foreign ministries and the manufacturer stressed that they had not yet recei
Tehran favors a regional approach, and it has the clout to settle the conflict or block U.S. aims. Iranian officials called U.S. accusations that Tehran is arming Shiite militias in Iraq with tank-piercing explosives "unfounded," and said t
KB Home reported a better than expected loss in the fiscal fourth quarter as the company got caught with too much land and too many unsold homes in the slowing housing market.
HERE'S what Dave Hennigan knows about the four-bedroom house tucked away on a tranquil Corona street: The owner is a woman, and she's $8,155 behind on her mortgage payments.
Maybe she had a messy divorce or expensive illness. Maybe she has
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing intelligence activities, cited the new Iraqi security crackdown as a reason for the departure of al-Sadr, who leads one of the largest insurgent militias in Iraq.
Al-Sa
Some months ago over 500,000 illegal immigrants took to the streets of Los Angeles. They have an agenda - and so does our Government.
Learn about the profound constitutionally protected Right that our leaders hoped we’d never discover -- much less
Growing up in Bangladesh, Abul Hussam drank well water tainted with arsenic, a metal that can cause cancer if consumed regularly. 40 years later, Hussam developed an inexpensive filtration system that is changing his country and could help put an end
Agence France-Presse, the global news agency, has launched an international television news service, AFPTV, aimed at broadcasters, Internet providers and cell phone operators.
Bolivia will not compensate Swiss Glencore mining company for a foundry expropriated due to irregularities in a prior government's sale, the minister of mines has announced.
The U.S. trade deficit set a fifth consecutive annual record in 2006, reflecting a huge jump in America's foreign oil bill and an all-time high for the trade gap with China. The year ended with the December deficit increasing more than had been e
Smoking marijuana eased HIV-related pain in some patients that represented one of the few rigorous attempts to find out whether the drug has medicinal benefits. The Bush administration quickly sought to shoot holes in the experiment.
Fleeing Iraqis' last refuge is virtually closing up shop. Syria, the last Arab country welcoming large numbers of Iraqi refugees, is all but shutting down its border. This leaves the 40,000 Iraqis who escape their war-torn country each month with
"It is clear that Iranians are involved, and it's clear that materials from Iran are involved, but I would not say by what I know that the Iranian government clearly knows or is complicit," said General Peter Pace.