Is Iran making nuclear weapons? Is the United States preparing to wage war against them to prevent them from obtaining nuclear weapons? Our guest is Scott Ritter. He is a former Marine, United Nations weapons inspector, and author.
Stock markets plunged across much of Asia for a second day amid jitters about a sell-off in China's stock market and a worries about a possible slowdown in the Chinese and U.S. economies.
A recent AP article entitled, “Governors Seek More Money for Children’s Insurance,” explains why the United States of America continues to follow the path of socialism as opposed to the principles of individual liberty upon which it was founded. Acc
Iran is determined to develop nuclear weapons and could produce one by early to mid next decade, the head of US intelligence said, calling it a "very dangerous situation." Rising oil income and perceived successes of its surrogates Hamas an
“President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners ‘disappeared’ by the CIA whose fate is still unknown. What happened to these people and where are they now?”
Pakistan said under no circumstances would it accept dictation from any source even as the US asked it “to do more” in the war on terror. The Bush administration was ratcheting up pressure on Pakistan with a warning of a possible aid cut-off if Islam
As the Bush administration ratchets up its military threat to Iran, the leadership of the Democratic party is providing a free pass to continue on that potentially disastrous course. Congressional leaders have tacitly or explicitly accepted the neces
In a startlingly blunt speech at a Munich security conference, Russia's president accused Washington of seeking world domination, undermining the UN and other international institutions, monopolizing world energy resources, destabilizing the Mide
Strained by the demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is significant risk that the US military won't be able to quickly and fully respond to yet another crisis. The assessment, done by the nation's top military officer, Gen. Peter Pa
House Democratic leaders are backing away from a plan to scale back US involvement in the Iraq war by using Congress' most powerful tool _ withholding money in the budget. Instead, party officials said they may attempt to embarrass Bush into aba
Police are investigating whether a Kaiser Permanente transplant surgeon attempted to hasten the death of a 25-year-old San Luis Obispo man on life support in order to harvest his organs more quickly.
With the flip of another switch, powerful up-and-down vibrations, 50 a second, started shaking the cylinder. A bubble floating in the liquid — phosphoric acid — started to shine, brightening into an intense ball of light like a miniature star.
The insurance industry is one of Washington's fiercest and best-funded lobbies, so it rarely gets surprised. But industry representatives acknowledged amazement their most important federal benefit -- an antitrust exemption -- is in danger.
The United States agreed to join high-level talks with Iran and Syria on the future of Iraq, an abrupt shift in policy that opens the door to diplomatic dealings the White House had shunned in recent months despite mounting criticism.
Families of victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests have urged the government to allow open debate on the subject at next week's annual meeting of parliament and "reveal the truth".
The Communist Party cautioned China's increasingly impatient reformers and intellectuals that political liberalization and democracy are still a long way off despite the rapid pace of economic change over the last two decades.
More than a quarter of U.S. girls and women ages 14 to 59 are infected with the sexually transmitted human wart virus, which causes most cases of cervical cancer, U.S. health officials estimated.
More must be done to go after al-Qaida, which is trying to establish training camps and other operations in some of Pakistan's most ungoverned territory, the new U.S. spy chief said.
Native Americans have known about the therapeutic powers of "divine sage" for centuries, and it is still legal in most parts of the US. But there are moves afoot to outlaw what some describe as a mind-altering drug similar to LSD.
Hundreds of thousands of American troops already occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, a number that is rising as the military surge moves forward. The justification, given endlessly since September 11th, is that both support terrorism and thus pose a risk t
A judge on Tuesday sentenced former Food and Drug Administration chief Lester Crawford to three years' supervised probation with fines of roughly $90,000 for lying about stocks he owned in companies regulated by his agency.
Canada's Parliament scrapped two contentious anti-terror measures, angering the minority Conservative government, which accuses opposition legislators of being soft on terror. [Where is our repeals? Oh, the Dems support repression.]
In what the Taliban claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide bomber attacked the main gate of a U.S. military base within earshot of Vice President Dick Cheney. The explosion killed 23 people, including two Americans, and delivered a propagand
U.S.-led strike forces seized suspected Shiite death squad bosses in raids that tested the fragile bonds between the government and a powerful militia faction allowing the Baghdad security crackdown to move ahead.
Listen and watch as Ron Paul discusses the issues and his campaign with supporters in this semi-private fundraising event Saturday Night in New Hampshire.
India wants to sell nuclear reactors. Nuclear Power Corporation of India said that it was in talks to sell small nuclear reactors to Malaysia and other Asian nations in hopes an international embargo on its technology will end.
On Thursday, the Lubbock, Texas city council voted to delay installation of red light cameras after a local television station exposed the city's short timing of yellow lights at eight of the twelve intersections where the devices were to be inst