In another example of the diminishing freedom of the press in Turkey, Yurt newspaper reporter Meriç ?enyüz and Ulusal Kanal reporter Özer Sürmeli received sentences of six and five months respectively for their reporting of a December seventeent
I've long written about how the percentage of sociopaths within a group of humans becomes increasingly concentrated the higher you climb within the positions of power in a society, with it being most chronic amongst those who crave political power
Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
President's Usurpation of Legislative Authority Hailed by Democrats
President Obama's decision to enact immigration reform legislation that Congress has refused to enact inspired some lavish praise from fellow Democrats.
House Minority Leader N
When U.S. governments take Americans into war, we hear them justify it as a fight for freedom. Often they rationalize it as an anti-tyranny fight, a pro-peace fight and a pro-democracy fight.
Five prisoners have been released from Guantanamo Bay as part of a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, officials said Thursday.
If there are 2 words in the English language we need to understand, they are the words "police power." Government is police power. Government by definition, by nature, by history and by practical existence is police power.
Today's world is a strange place. We are inundated with signals from early on in life, encouraging each of us to walk a particular path, establishing blinders on us along the way to discourage us from looking for alternatives to what the herd is do
For months, a powerful U.S. senator has been pushing for details of a murky deal under which a Russian manufacturer supplies the rocket engines used to launch America's spy satellites into space.
For instance, he explains that the Second Amendment, which begins "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.," has no bearing on private gun ownership.
It's as old as time itself. Governments spying on governments. Carrier pigeons being shot down. Letters snuck behind enemy lines. Morse code deciphered. Special radio signals, intercepted. It's one of the most valuable commodities known to man: c
We told you last week about a judge in Florida who's trying to get her job back after getting busted for drinking on the job. Depending on where you work, most of us aren't allowed to drink on the job. But it's a series of new studies that's
As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy.
The wheels up party is a venerable CIA tradition, normally celebrated at overseas stations when a particularly incompetent Chief of Station or a hostile ambassador was in the process of permanently leaving post.
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Atomic Reporters
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