Australia's close military alliance with the US is to be further entrenched with the building of a high-tech communications base in Western Australia. The Federal Government is about to approve the base after 3 years of secret
Even as the private spaceflight firm PlanetSpace, Inc. aims for orbital space shots, the Chicago-based company is also drawing up plans for a suborbital Earth transit system.
After more than 1000 test of police complaint intake procedures by Police Complaint Center staff across the country you would think that most police officers will recognize us or at least recognize the elements of our test procedures...
A real vote against a troop surge is a vote against the coming supplemental appropriation that finances it. I hope all of my colleagues who vote against the surge today will vote against the budgetary surge when it really counts: when we vote on the
"A lot of people are angry about what kids are doing and what's happening on the Internet," said Parry Aftab, a leading Internet child safety expert. "That's fine. But it is not MySpace's role to raise your child."
Over the past few days, I've contacted a number of academics, think-tank analysts, and former government officials and asked them whether they think military action against Iran is likely, and the probable consequences of a military confrontation
India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed sin
La Filosofia de la Libertad - This animated introduction to the philosophy of liberty was created by Lux Lucre. The text and inspiration come from "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey" by Ken Schoolland.
This animated introduction to the philosophy of liberty was created by Lux Lucre. The text and inspiration come from "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey" by Ken Schoolland.
Former Bush National Security Council official also says Rice likely lied about not seeing document. In 2003 then-Secretary of State Colin Powell received a “grand bargain” offer from Iran and was rebuffed by the White House.
Judge Walton said he “believed all along in the process that Mr. Libby was going to testify” and that his lawyers were now “playing games with the process.” He ruled that the defense would no longer be able to use some evidence, including something t
Early on the morning of Dec. 13, police officers responding to a 911 call arrived at a house in Hull, Mass., a seaside town near Boston, and found a 4-year-old girl on the floor of her parents’ bedroom, dead.
All day long during the trial, one Firedoglake blogger is on duty to beam to the Web from the courthouse media room a rough, real-time transcript of the testimony. The “live blog” has offered the fullest, fastest public report available. Many mainstr
Although it admonished the police for some of their procedures, the government panel did not recommend disciplinary action in connection with the raid, which soured relations between police and many Muslims. [nuf said]
Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what it means to be an "enemy combatant" against the United States.
A much better way to deter thieves from grabbing your good credit name is a "security freeze," which blocks access to your credit reports and credit scores. Credit bureaus can't release your credit reports, scores or any other informati
IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
A former Houston man has been charged in Texas with teaming with al-Qaeda in the East African country of Somalia to fight the internationally recognized government there and establish an Islamic state.
The White House found itself fending off a neocon revolt over the North Korea nuclear deal, even scrambling to mollify one of its own top officials who expressed sharp disagreement with a provision that could spring Pyongyang from the list of countri
[Bush: They can have their non-binding resolution, but they had better vote for additional funding next week, when they could really do something about the war.]
Of course, Iraq had no significant al-Qaeda presence, nor overtly hostile anti-American force present when Saddam Hussein was in charge. Iran was a secular state that was not fundamentalist Islamic ... like it is now.
The Bush administration struggled to explain what it knows about alleged Iranian interference in Iraq after the Pentagon's top general appeared to contradict a recently released military dossier on the subject.
Contradicting claims by Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Gates that US intelligence had proof of Iranian government responsibility for the supply of such weapons, the unnamed officials who briefed the media admitted the claim is merel
President Bush said he’s convinced that the Iranian government is supplying deadly weapons to fighters in Iraq, even if he can’t prove the orders came from Tehran. More important, “I’m going to do something about it,” Bush said.
A Mexican man has discovered dozens of dinosaur footprints dating back up to 110 million years along the banks of a dried river, scientists said. Biologist Oscar Polaco said the footprints, found by a local resident in a desert region in central Mexi