Behind the televised glamour of the Beijing Olympics, lies a chilling Chinese “charity”: the routine–and highly lucrative–harvesting of organs from executed political prisoners.
Apparently there's a bit of PT Barnham in everyone: even the Chinese. It's reported that viewers in the worldwide audience, who thought they were watching an awesome fireworks display at the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, were re
Hunt has done a lot for Bush and vice-versa. Bush named Hunt in 2001 to his President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and reappointed him five years later. Hunt also serves on the National Petroleum Council that gives industry advice to Bush’s
Democratic nominee Barack Obama has embraced national service as a priority of his presidency. Obama would not directly impose forced labor on young people, but would withhold educational funds from them and their institutions if they fail to comply.
Russia expanded its attacks on Georgia on Sunday, moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia, in its first direct assault on a Georgian city with ground forces duri
Authorities say he has patents pending and had been using his basement as a science lab to conduct experiments, possibly for many years. Firefighters found more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement Tuesday afternoon, after
Discussion by some opposition MPs about the possible introduction of a knife registry, following the gruesome, fatal attack on a Greyhound bus passenger late last month.
A knife registry? Really? What would I have to declare, paring knives, a brea
Freddie Mac's CEO collected $38 million while the company he ran fell into a financial morass. He's just one example of corporate chiefs who want taxpayers to bail them out.
Barberton Municipal Judge Greg Macko dropped the charges after the Clarks went to the finance department and paid the overdue $10.12. They weren't fined, but they were hit with court costs. Now they owe the city $426 — $213 each.
For critics, the idea is an Orwellian nightmare: The federal government would begin signing off on every hiring decision made in the United States. It's the latest plan to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country. The nation's
A shortcut favored by most advocates of limited government is "restoration" of the Constitution. "If only we could get back to the Constitution as it was written," people say. It's a sincere wish, but as a path to a free socie
For all the money, technology and military might America can throw at the Taliban, conditions at the US Army's most attacked outpost in Afghanistan are reminiscent of the First World War trenches.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts that global losses tied to the credit crisis will be $945 billion. It's a widely used number, but Sonders thinks it's "potentially very conservative." So how high could losses go? Sonders po
He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His targets are illegally parked city
As a University Professor of Physics with a background in energy usage, I set out to develop a means of cooking food and sterilizing water using the free energy of the sun.
On Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States." [Only we are allowed to invade and bomb nations
Georgian troops have poured into South Ossetia and the Georgian president has appealed to the international community for assistance. Russian troops have been shown on Russia's television channels being treated in hospital, and claim that 15 of t
This week the US House of Representatives voted 326 to 102 to pass the Family Smoking Prevention Tobacco Control Act, to grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco products. If the legislation is enacted, consumers would see tou
A slew of questions remain: Was his trial legal? Will he be freed once he serves his five remaining months? And, having floundered in this first attempt, will the administration be foolish enough to use this deeply-flawed system to try the people it
When jurors began deliberating his sentence, the only question they asked the judge was how much credit Hamdan would get for the time he has been held at Guantanamo. He would get 61 months' credit, and the jurors sentenced him to a 66-month term
The verdict in the first war crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is in: One poorly educated Yemeni, with an impish sense of humor and two little girls, is guilty of supporting terrorism by driving Osama bin Laden. With credit for time served, the s
Why don’t we call America the United States of England? It may be a separate entity politically and geographically, but it truly carries forward the imperial spirit of the old British Empire.
There's a new land grab starting in America. Foreign money, which up to now has focused its attention on investing in iconic commercial real estate is now moving to scoop up tens of thousands of discounted foreclosed homes across the country.
Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly rele
The tanks were full of enough clean drinking water for some 200,000 Iraqis at a new distribution station in eastern Baghdad, but local officials struggled Saturday to agree on where it should go.
The dilemma was an example of the obstacles facing