The Democrats in Congress have lost much of the leadership edge they carried out of the 2006 midterm election, with the lack of progress in Iraq being the leading cause. Their only solace: President Bush and the Republicans aren't doing any bette
Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantanamo detainee accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, throwing up roadblocks to the Bush administration's attempt to try terr
Venezuela and the United States traded barbs in public over freedom of speech and human rights on Monday in a public spat sparked by Venezuela's closure of an opposition television station.
"I wish it would end already! This torment; this is hell. I try to escape from these thoughts of the next day, but they keep haunting me like nagging flies. If only I could say, it's over, you only die once ... but I can't, because despi
U.S.-led soldiers control only about a third of Baghdad, the military said on Monday, almost four months into a security crackdown during which troops are dying at rates not seen for more than two years.
More than 18,000 extra U.S. troops have bee
For the first time in 18 years, Ding Zilin marked the anniversary of her son's death with a visit to the place where he was shot amid a violent government crackdown on protests at Tiananmen Square.
"It's not a technicality. It's another demonstration that the system simply doesn't work," said the tribunal's chief defense counsel, Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan. "Fundamentally it is a system of justice that does not c
How many people can the United States allow before environmental meltdown as described by this series? When will this civilization come to terms with its limits and this accelerating "Human Katrina" bearing down on us?
Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., was indicted Monday on federal charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes and money-laundering in a long-running bribery investigation into business deals he tried to broker in Africa.
"Our government "prints up jobs out of thin air" the same way the Federal Reserve prints up money. To manufacture jobs, The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses their very own Net Birth/Death computer model."
President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could take "retaliatory steps" if Washington proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system for Europe, including possibly aiming nuclear weapons at targets on the continent.
[First Australian, now Canadian...see a pattern?] A military judge dismissed charges today against Canadian detainee Omar Khadr, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who was being tried for crimes he allegedly committed when he was 15 years old.
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Cardinal Mahony and other religious racketeers prove outside the law in their quest to aid, abet and encourage illegal aliens to continue flooding into the USA. Seems like breaking our laws proves a sin by any other name.
The United States dollar is facing imminent collapse in the face of an unsustainable debt, the United Nations warned today.
United States debt, which had now deepened to well over $3 trillion, might turn out to be unsustainable in the rest of 2007
JUNE 4--One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility.
Thousands of people went to the candlelight vigil Monday night, filling up four soccer fields at Victoria Park near downtown Hong Kong. Among them was Tonny Chin, 50, a clerk, who has attended the vigil every year since 1989.
There is a game called "Countries." The game consists of subgames with names such as "U.S.A.," "France," "U.K.," "Australia," "China," etc. Each subgame has its own "territory," often "bordered" by rivers or seas, which is shown on a map with all the
Want to communicate with the news, or government? This website looks like has a few thousand email addresses. Have fun make a new friend with someone in the news. Tell them the news because they are certainly not reporting it!
Four people, including a former member of Guyana's parliament, have been charged with planning to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. officials said on Saturday.
In the city of Holyoke, there's one simple rule: No shrines to gangsters, drug dealers or repeat criminals. "They put 'em up, I take 'em down," says Police Chief Anthony Scott.
After a gang member died in a shootout, Scott publ
An ex-spy whose unmasking led to the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide vowed on Saturday to press on with lawsuits against Cheney and the CIA for the sake of freedom of speech.
From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides Saturday, as saboteurs bombed a vital bridge link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops across the border massed for a possible strike.
"We won't allow it to be turned
A chart published by the Presidential campaign of Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) indicated a major imbalance in the time allotted to different Democratic hopefuls by CNN broadcaster Wolf Blitzer, who moderated tonight's two hour debate at St. An
Yeah, yeah, big scary terrorist plot.
Every time this happens, it turns out that the whole damn thing was either made up by the state out of thin air, the idea to do something violent came from the undercover FBI informant or the “truth” was tortu
Aviation experts cautioned Saturday that the alleged plot targeting John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York would have faced many hurdles, not least of which is the fact that jet fuel does not easily explode.
US fears over China long-range missiles”, ran The Financial Times’ front page headline last week and an eight column spread rammed the message home, that Washington is becoming worried that China is deploying mobile land and sea-base missiles that ha
“ABC News Learns of Plans to Keep Troops in Iraq Beyond 2009,” was the top story posted on Saturday morning’s edition of Antiwar.com. Then the story disappeared.
The link now says “You’ve requested an ABCNews.com page that does not exist.”