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The US is threatening to ban oil exports from Venezuela, Jose Vicente Rangel, Venezuela's Vice President said on Friday. "If we can sell gasoline to China, India and Latin America, as we have been doing, we will not have a problem," he
Rebels blew up an oil pipeline in Nigeria's southern delta, further hitting oil supplies. The latest in a series of attacks on oil installations in the eighth biggest oil-exporting country, which had already reduced supplies by a quarter.
According to eyewitnesses and local officials interviewed the civilians who died in Haditha were killed not by a roadside bomb but by the Marines themselves, who went on a rampage in the village after the attack, killing 15 unarmed Iraqis in their ho
A federal judge has ordered internet search engine Google to turn over some search data, including 50,000 web addresses, to the US government.
In this send-up of "Monopoly," players don't pass "Go" and they don't go directly to jail _ they go to Guantanamo Bay.
Terry Pratchett’s observation that “chaos always defeats order because it is better organized,” reflects a world in flux. Perhaps a film such a V for Vendetta will provide us an opportunity to begin exploring the orderly nature of anarchistic systems
There is literally no moment of this film that doesn't have a political impact. From the moral judgments of a government formed on a religious conservative basis to the methods of its tight control over its population, there's plenty to think
Federal drug enforcement agents in Northern California shut down an elaborate "marijuana candy" factory that produced drug-laced snacks called Rasta Reece's, Pot Tarts, Buddahfingers, Munchy Way and Puff-a-Mint Pattie.
No matter how you do the math, 193 "yeas" plus 198 "nays" don't add up to 369 votes. The 2 voting machines used are now in the custody of the Attorney General’s Office. The machines showed no signs of malfunctions in pre-elec
The amount of unpaid federal fines has risen sharply in the last decade. Individuals and corporations regularly avoid large, highly publicized penalties for wrongdoing—sometimes through negotiations, sometimes because companies go bankrupt, so
A former top State Department official suspected of being the first person to discuss the identity of a CIA official with reporters is expected to testify in the perjury trial of ex-vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a court moti
2 US Navy warships exchanged gunfire with suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, and 1 suspect was killed and 5 others were wounded, the navy said. 7 other suspects were taken into custody after the early-morning shootout.
"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day, as an average, 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sa
Israel's right-wing Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out joining interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a future government, in protest at Olmert's planned unilateral West Bank withdrawals. Bolstered speculation that Olmert's ce
1 of the 6 wheels on the Mars rover Spirit has stopped working and the solar-powered robot must propel itself up a slope to catch enough sunshine to keep operating, NASA said. "It is not drawing any current at all," said a rover engineerin
As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot. Or, make that dual-boot—the way to make a computer switch between t
[There are only a few seats left folks!] Join us Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 5:00~6:30 p.m. for the release of a new report on Arizona’s campaign finance system and a robust discussion with the nation’s leading experts on campaign finance.
Since 20 September 2002, the US government has abandoned its former multilateral approach to global affairs, and adopted an imperial posture known as the so-called Bush doctrine. This new agenda is based on militarist and imperial values with some th
Entered By: Mike Dugger
There, American soldiers made one of the former Iraqi government's torture chambers into their own interrogation cell named the Black Room. In the windowless room, some soldiers beat prisoners with rifle butts, yelled and spit in their faces and,
Before Bush arrived, 2 men approached him identifying themselves as members of the media. He said the men told him they were with Fox News, and were on a "scouting mission" for a story on new construction. They took pictures inside Akins
Tony Blair lost an influential ally today as the Economist withdrew its backing for the prime minister in the wake of this week's setbacks. The weekly magazine urges Mr Blair to "quit while he is still ahead" and give the elector
In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What’s more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance,
The operation came at a time when support at home for President Bush and his campaign in Iraq is running very low, and when the international media were preparing to focus on the third anniversary of the war, just three days later.
South Park has declared war on Scientology after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule. watch episode: http://tinyurl.com/qro83
A spoof John Howard website that featured a soul searching "apology" speech for the Iraq war has been shut down under orders from the Australian Government. "Mystified" to discover his satirical website johnhowardpm.org had been b
Iran and the US agreed today to hold direct talks on how to halt sectarian violence and restore calm in Iraq, offering the first face-to-face conversation between the 2 sides after months of confrontation over Iran's nuclear program.
The prospect of Iranian-US talks on Iraq, which look more likely after statements in Washington and Tehran, partly reflects intense struggles within Iraq's dominant Shíite Alliance. Deadlock on forming the national unity government that U.S. offi
Her Shiite family are preparing for war. They've stocked up on food. They bought a Kalashnikov rifle and a second car—so that there is space for all 13 members of their extended family should they need to flee in a hurry. "We are afraid of
The militia of radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr, " has set up a shadow government in the centre of Baghdad. This group was tasked with carrying out the affairs of the city in the place of the Iraqi government and institutions." The Mahdi Army
The attorney general threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.
