An explanation of why 9/11 events must be reinvestigated.
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will consider whether the time has come to eliminate affirmative action in college admissions, resurrecting in an election year questions about the role race should play in American life.
Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Me.) introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S. 2105) on Feb. 14. The proposed bill would also have DHS create a program for cybersecurity research and development, and stand up a process for designating high-priority critical infrastructure, assessing its risks and building a regulatory framework for setting and enforcing cybersecurity standards.
CDS are a form of derivative taken out by investors as insurance against default. According to the Comptroller of the Currency, nearly 95% of the banking industry’s total exposure to derivatives contracts is held by the nation’s five largest banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. The CDS market is unregulated, and there is no requirement that the “insurer” actually have the funds to pay up. CDS are more like bets, and a massive loss at the casino could bring the house down.
Nureddin Sabir argues that the reactions of a large section of the so-called “left” and “anti-imperialist” camp to the uprisings in Libya and Syria are motivated not by some high-minded principle or anything to do with progressive ideology but by cynicism, petty personal agendas and ignorance.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore the possibility of arming Syria's rebels.
The Federal Reserve has operated almost entirely behind closed doors as it rewrites the rule book governing the U.S. financial system, a stark contrast with its push for transparency in its interest-rate policies and emergency-lending programs.
The former International Monetary Fund chief was told by detectives in France that there is evidence linking him to ‘complicity in pimping’ and ‘misuse of corporate assets’.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet’s surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently.
While the numbers of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. have leveled off during the Obama presidency, suspicion is rising about whether the president is pandering to Latinos to attract their votes in November.
Because of inflation, $2.13 is worth 40% less in real terms than it was when the rate was established 21 years ago.
A Florida policeman who tasered a woman to brain death has been cleared.
The Wall Street Journal report, which cited a number of security officials, warned that the hacker group could take down the U.S. power grid within a couple of years. One official quoted also said that the U.S. should be wary of a foreign government or al-Qaeda trying to hire the hackers to mount a cyber attack.
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At this historical juncture in which aggression against Iran on the part of Israel and/or the U.S. is openly discussed, Graham is an influential congressional interventionist and warmonger. What is he thinking and saying? What are his arguments, and what are the real reasons for attacking Iran that he is not expressing?
For decades, people inside and outside the ACLU have tried to get its board to moderate its campaign finance views, and new facts on the ground give them more ammunition.
The district attorney will not file charges against Crowell, who had been on the force 18 months at the time of the incident and has since moved on to a job at the FBI.
Stuart Littlewood argues that behind British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s extraordinary and otherwise inexplicable hostility towards Iran may lie the desire to preserve the imbalance of power in the Middle East so that Israel remains the dominant military force.
BEIRUT — Syrian forces continued to bombard the city of Homs on Wednesday, as international outrage at the growing death toll increased pressure on the government of President Bashar al-Assad ahead of a meeting of world leaders Friday to discuss the crisis.
After shamelessly declaring their obliteration of Libya a success, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, have announced the creation of a joint military command and control centre to streamline future operations.
James Hall | Reinstituting an American industrial and manufacturing base is a necessary step to climb out of a deep hole.
corporate - The first Chinese carmaker to assemble vehicles in the European Union has started production in Bulgaria.
Editor’s Note: By now most people are familiar with Bravo Company 2-16′s Apache helicopter assault which was revealed to the public as part of the famous 201o Wikileaks/Bradley Manning document dump. It ranks up there as one of the most sinister revelations into the killer-psychology present within the US armed forces occupations overseas. In this instance, members of Bravo Co. are upset with their colleague Ethan McCord for backing the new whistleblower film of the incident. Their defensive stance over the issue is not unlike the US military’s defensive stance over Bradley Manning’s punishment – the soldiers, like their institutional employer, are not capable of taking any real responsibility for their crimes and for murders committed under the cover of an unconstitutional military operation overseas. If you listen to the cold language used by these soldiers during this raid, then their inability to recall the events of the day should come as no surprise. To carry out these crimes in the way they did, they would have to be seriously mentally ill, or completely brainwashed by the US military machine. In either case, someone should step forward to take responsibility for what happened – either the soldiers or the military brass. If neither do so, then we have an irredeemably broken military institution in the US.
Kurt Nimmo | Popular outrage over SOPA and PIPA has forced the globalists to seek a new line of attack in their effort to control the internet. On February 27, they will engage in a “diplomatic process” that will hand over to the United Nations unprecedented control over a free and open internet.
Even the horses used by Chicago’s mounted police will be outfitted with new leather nose guards with “impact-absorbing foam.”
Kurt Nimmo | Leftists shine when it comes to direct action. And that’s what they are doing in Greece and elsewhere in Europe in response to bankster imposed austerity measures – direct action at the point of highway robbery.
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