One important political impediment to holding Bush officials accountable for their illegal torture program: Key members of Congress sanctioned this program, so those who might ordinarily be counted on to lead the charge are themselves compromised.
When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out. But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old Cory, and Miles, five, led to him being called a ‘perver
Even the super-rich are becoming nervous as cries for an emergency suspension of short selling ring out. What is really taking place is the producing economy of workers is being crushed by the overall debt burden on households, businesses, and
Ron Paul supporters have made themselves at home on the the GOP platform site, sounding many of the themes that turned the Texas congressman's doomed run for the Republican presidential nod into an internet cause célèbre.
The Government Accountability Office released a report that states that measures designed to secure radioactive materials–that could be used in a dirty bomb by terrorists–are more than three years behind schedule.
Given history, those of us who weren't born yesterday must ask the obvious question: Who knew what and who did what and why is the government so terrified of asking these questions?
Video of Obama after the 21st bruising Democrat debate. Did he slyly make an obscene gesture while mentioning Hillary Clinton? Watch the video and you be the judge. [video time: 1:09 min]
The flags of Iran, Afghanistan and Tehran-based Abad Rahan Pars Road & Construction Co. fly above a railroad work camp west of the Afghan city of Herat, signaling another commercial incursion from across the border.
Foreclosure resales continue to be a dominant factor in today's Southern California market accounting for 41.1 percent of all resales. That was up from 39.2 percent in May, and up from 7.3 percent in June a year ago.
President George W. Bush, asserting executive privilege, has rejected Congress' request for documents on FBI interviews with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from a probe to find who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.
Irish politicians reacted angrily Wednesday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested Ireland should hold a second referendum on the EU's new treaty, after rejecting it last month.
One big sovereign fund in the Gulf has cut its dollar-denominated holdings from more than 80 per cent a year ago to less than 60 per cent, while China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has been looking to strike deals with private equ
The depressed newspaper industry is old news of course but Alan Mutter, who blogs at Reflections of a Newsosaur, noticed a depressing pattern in the last report of "short" market activity: there were some pretty big bets that newspaper stoc
Water bathed the surface of southern Mars for millions of years, helping to create an environment theoretically capable of nurturing life, according to a new study into the planet's mysterious oceans.
My guess is the Israeli leaders are apoplectic. The fiasco in Iraq clearly has made the region much more dangerous for Israel. There are actually real “terrorists” and “extremists” now in Iraq, and the prospect of US troops leaving has got to be a
What happens when citizens spend their treasure and sweat getting 2 initiatives onto a ballot only to have a city employee separately make mistakes conveniently nullifying a recall? Why that employee gets a two week vacation. Congratulations!
There really is a kind of a tsunami of shocks facing not just the economy but people's lives, people's real lives. They're all intersecting. They're making each other worse. And I think we really are seeing some very live examples, wh
The country depends on Asian, Russian and Middle Eastern investors to fund much of its $700bn (£350bn) current account deficit, leaving it far more vulnerable to a collapse of confidence than Japan in the early 1990s after the Nikkei bubble burst.
As you know Ernie was co-MC at the Revolution March Rally in Washington DC this past weekend. John Darash has posted a 26 part video series of the rally! Even though Chuck Baldwin & Ron Paul spoke last, they are the first three.
CNN's Drew Griffin reported on the bloating of the watch list, which an ACLU count pegged at 1,001,308 names Wednesday afternoon. Griffin's is one of those names, he says.
In the mood for something different? How about a trip to Peru to dine on the national delicacy of roasted cuy. That’s guinea pig for our non-Peruvian speaking readers.
Sources from inside the 2008 Bilderberg meeting have leaked the details of what elitists were discussing in Chantilly Virginia last week and the talking points were ominous - a plan to microchip Americans under the pretext of fighting terrorist group
A gun expert who testified against the government when David Olofson was on trial for loaning to an acquaintance a gun that misfired now says the government is punishing him for that testimony.
The cell phone photographer says the arrest was intimidation, but the deputy says he feared for his life. "Here’s a guy who takes me out of the car and arrests me in front of my kids. For what? To take a picture of a police officer?" said S