The farmer, standing in a field of tall grass, talked like an oilman. The grass was waist-high as John Caveny held out a business card with his little printed in green: "Biomass Energy Wildcatter." He compared the potential energy produc
An increasingly wealthy China is now building a military force tailored specifically to challenge any attempt by the US to intervene in a conflict over Taiwan, Western and Chinese military analysts have said.
Suspected al-Qaida bombers stepped up attacks on key transportation arteries, striking a bridge north of the capital Monday a day after shutting the superhighway south of Baghdad with a huge explosion that collapsed an overpass and killed three U.S.
The great grandson of the Apache leader Geronimo has appealed to the big chief in the White House to help recover the remains of his famous relative - purportedly stolen more than 90 years ago by a group of Yale students - including the President
Those who strongly oppose the new immigration reform bill before the Senate "don't want to do what's right for America ," the president said. I reject that assessment as unfair and inaccurate.
Predicting that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon within 3 years and claiming to have a strike plan in place, senior American military officers said they support President Bush's stance to do everything necessary to stop the Islamic Republic'
Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of US intell
American and Israeli air forces began week-long joint exercises in southern Israel, simulating dog-fights and bombing targets on the ground, the army said. Dozens of aircraft are taking part in the exercises in the southern Negev desert, it said.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he favors immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to US facilities. The prison, which now holds about 380 suspected terrorists has tarnished the world's
"Unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions have not resolved any problems. Moreover, they have caused new human tragedies and created new centers of tension. (Reminder, this is Vladimir Putin. Maybe Ron Paul is advising him)
There are moments - when US president John F. Kennedy was shot or the World Trade Center fell - you never forget. The end of the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's lightning strike takeover of the Sinai Penisula, Gaza Strip, West Bank
The documents dating from the 1960's and 1970's have been unearthed from the National Archives. Many of these were discoverd by Nicholas Gilby, and assiduous researcher from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade
The arms company BAE Systems used a secret payments system to transfer more than 13 million pounds to a company linked to David Hart, the controversial former Conservative defence adviser, according to legal sources.
Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the US has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur.
The explosion in government secrecy since 9/11 has been breathtaking. In 1995, according to the Information Security Oversight Office, the stamp of classification -- "confidential," "secret," "top secret," etc. -- was w
Israel has launched a new spy satellite which it says will provide high-quality surveillance over enemies such as Syria and Iran, rivalling the capabilities of the US. Rocketed into orbit from a coastal Israeli air base, the Ofek 7 was expected to b
Well of course he is, don’t be ridiculous. And he will continue to be.
Ever wonder why Ron Paul doesn’t do well in the ‘mainstream establishment’ polls such as Gallup? Ever wonder how in the world Dr. Paul could have so much support on the internet
How many times has the now infamous Osama bin Laden “confession video” played in the corporate media after its release on December 13, 2001? How many newspapers carried the story of Osama bin Laden, confessing to his prior knowledge of the 9/11 atta
After Blackwater lost a series of appeals all the away to the U.S. Supreme Court, Blackwater has now changed its tactics and is suing the dead men's estates for $10 million to silence the families and keep them out of court.
Congress, apparently content to explore ever-new depths in public disapproval, is on the verge of having a single member derail the most meaningful reform in years of the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called for a revolution in world economic relations, saying institutions created by the West were "archaic, undemocratic and inflexible."
U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper said political parties have a right to stop non-party members from voting in their primary elections. He said party registration and voter ID would do that.
Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day - hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves. The removal of the books is occurring nationwide, part of a long-delayed,
The size of the US national intelligence budget remains one of the government's most closely guarded secrets. By reverse engineering the numbers the total budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies was $60 billion, 25% higher than believed.
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on CBS's Face the Nation this morning laid out a case for the US taking military action against Iran.
"Iraq is now the main front in the long war we are fighting against the Islamist terrorists who attacked us
States should have the power to restrict the movement of patients with contagious diseases even before they have the chance to disobey doctors' orders, says a top federal health official.
The need for such authority to order someone quarantine
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he wanted a total withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq and that American troops are targets in a civil war.
"I would leave no troops in Iraq whatsoever," Richardson said. "The