Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he did not know what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was talking about when she said last week that the United States had made thousands of "tactical errors" in handling the war in Iraq, a state
Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, 63, discusses the true $1 trillion cost of the Iraq conflict, its impact on the oil market and the questions of whether the West can afford to impose sanctions on Iran.
High-ranking Congressmen from both sides of the aisle slammed AG Gonzales at a hearing today. Though repeatedly claiming that NSA wiretap programs were legal, Gonzales refused to provide details, stating that the issues were classified.
Millions of airline passengers travelling through Russia will soon have to take a lie detector test as part of new security measures. The technology is intended to identify terrorists and drug smugglers. It could revolutionise check-ins. [I'll sa
Being a so-called anti-war movement leader (at least to the MSM), brings much responsibility and so much love for the people and the groups who are working hard to end this insane occupation, but is this enough? Recently, a blog written by an aquaint
The Gospel of Judas gives a different view of the relationship between Jesus and Judas, offering new insights into the disciple who betrayed Jesus. This account portrays Judas as acting at Jesus' request when he hands Jesus over to the authoritie
Vice President Cheney as one of the key figures who has concluded that the ongoing diplomatic efforts to bring Iran before the UN Security Council and eventually slap the Islamic regime with sanctions will come to naught, forcing Washington to resort
After the 2004 presidential election, Cuyahoga Co. election workers secretly skirted rules designed to make sure all votes were counted correctly. Their efforts were aimed at avoiding an expensive—and very public—hand recount of all votes cast. 3 top
"You never stop talking about freedom, which I appreciate, but while I'm listening to you talk about freedom I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges," Harry Taylor told Bush to a chorus
A federal judge barred prosecutors in the CIA leak case from making arguments that would be kept secret from the defendant, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Pprosecutors said they should be allowed to argue their case in secret, out
In the summer of 1982, I was feeling that I had the whole world on the palm of my hand when, at only 30 years of age, I had been appointed president of one of the most important regional banks in the north of Mexico.
Over a 10 month span, 77 television stations from all across the nation aired video news releases without informing their viewers even once that the reports were actually sponsored content.
Archeologists have discovered a huge 1,500-year-old pre-Hispanic pyramid in a working class district of Mexico City after digging into a hill used every year to depict the crucifixion of Christ. The unnamed pyramid has the same sized base as the gian
Oil prices moved close to $68 a barrel and gasoline also moved upward after the US government released data showing a decline in domestic supplies of motor fuel. Although crude stocks increased, tension between the West and Iran, violence in Nigeria
“Since the Act passed, voter turnout has not improved; incumbency re-election rates remain near 100 percent; and minor or third-party participation has not improved.” In 2004, all this consummate non-improvement cost over $8 million. Only a bureaucr
Hace unas semanas, ocurrió un evento ignorado pero de serias advertencias para todos los mexicanos. En un programa de TV en la que participaba nuestro Hugo Chávez—made in México—AMLO, Enrique Krauze, bordando el tema económico, le preguntaba: ¿Por qu
Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the US. [British flag license plates anyone?]
Vice President Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq.
I. Lewis Libby testified to the grand jury investigating the CIA leak that Cheney told him to pass on i
Usted puede preguntarse: ¿quiénes son los libertarios? ¿Qué proponemos? ¿Cómo intentamos cambiar la situación del país? Tal vez descubra al escucharnos que Usted también comparte el pensamiento libertario.
Residents of Massachusetts will be the first in the nation required to carry health insurance, just as motorists in many states are required to carry auto insurance.
The deportation of Piña's family tells an almost-forgotten story of a 1930s anti-immigrant campaign. Tens of thousands, and possibly more than 400,000, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were pressured — through raids and job denials — to leave the U
The absolute lack of transparency in U.S. voting systems yields unverifiable election results, which can only be accepted on faith. In Chicago voters are asked to trust the results produced by malfunctioning machines operated by a privately owned for
Zimmermann, the man who released the PGP e-mail encryption program to the world in 1991 -- only to face an abortive criminal prosecution from the government -- has been trying for 10 years to give the world easy-to-use software to cloak internet phon
A draft measure circulating in the House would outlaw travel funded by private interests, but only through the end of the year. After the November elections, the "ban" would quietly expire.
A defense attorney for a Canadian teenager accused of killing a U.S. soldier in
Afghanistan asked the judge on Wednesday to halt proceedings because of a lack of established rules for the military trials.
"He [the officer] reached out and grabbed her [Rep. McKinney (D-GA)] and she turned around and hit him," Gainer said. "Even the high and the haughty should be able to stop and say, 'I'm a congressman' and then everybody mov
El economista, Hernando de Soto, ha llegado al umbral de los laureados, por sus investigaciones de la forma en que reaccionan los mercados ante las agresiones de gobiernos miopes. Nos demuestra cómo débiles actores económicos, ante la infinidad de
The US House voted to limit the multimillion-dollar donations to nonprofit groups that changed the face of American politics in the 2004 presidential election. Republican support carried the day in the 218-209 vote to cap contributions to "527**
[Cell phones can't work over 2,000 feet off the ground, while the plane was at 37,000. You do the math.] US District Judge Brinkema said the jury considering whether to execute Moussaoui could hear the recording from United Flight 93 and see a t
¿Recuerdan los nebulosos días de la sustitución de importaciones? ¿Cuándo exportar era divino e importar pecado? ¿Cuando se idolatraba a Raul Prebisch y su CEPAL? ¿Los de da teoría de la dependencia? ¿El control policíaco de la inversión extranjera?