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  • Bashar al-Assad—The Fall of a Rabid AntiSemite

    Sunday, December 08, 2024
    When Pope John Paul II visited Damascus in May 2001, Bashar used his welcoming speech to denounce the Jews, saying, “They tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”   read more
  • Two Decades Later and Even the CIA Can’t Crack This Code

    Friday, April 24, 2009
    A puzzle that the Central Intelligence Agency set out to solve more than 20 years ago still remains a mystery today. In 1988, the CIA commissioned James Sanborn, a DC artist, to create a sculpture of encrypted messages to be placed in the CIA head...   read more
  • Obama to Use Military to Fill Civilian Posts in Afghanistan

    Friday, April 24, 2009
    When President Barack Obama named Lt. General Karl Eikenberry to be U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, few, if any, realized at the time that the decision represented just the first of hundreds of civilian positions in Afghanistan that soon will be m...   read more
  • Dozens of CIA Prisoners Still Missing

    Friday, April 24, 2009
    Once the Washington Post blew the cover off the Bush administration’s secret rendition program in November 2005, the CIA began closing up that operation by turning detainees over to other governments or shipping them to Guantánamo Bay. At the time...   read more
  • Computer Spies Hack into Pentagon’s Costliest Weapons Program

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    Not once, not twice, but several times have plans for the Defense Department’s most sophisticated, and expensive, military plane been hacked by cyber spies from China. In the most recent occurrence, intruders were able to gain access to the design...   read more
  • Bayer Tried to Hide Details of Explosion that Killed Two

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    Residents of Institute, West Virginia, were fortunate they did not become the next Bhopal when an explosion occurred last August at a Bayer chemical plant containing large quantities of the same chemical that killed thousands in India in 1984. A ...   read more
  • Obama Orders Cabinet to Cut Budgets by 0.0001%

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    President Barack Obama’s proclamation to his cabinet that they collectively cut out $100 million from the federal budget amounts to much ado about nothing, when the savings is put into perspective. Given the enormous size of the federal operating ...   read more
  • Obama Team Rejects Human Rights Expert Because He Lobbied for Human Rights

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    President Barack Obama’s “no lobbyists” rule for his administration has prevented a leading human rights expert from becoming the State Department’s top human rights official. Tom Malinowski, the Washington, DC, advocacy director for Human Rights ...   read more
  • States Hardest Hit by Recession Benefit Least From Obama Stimulus

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    Based on numbers released by the Obama White House, and current unemployment figures, the stimulus package is likely to be more help to those states not hit hard by the recession than those really struggling to recover. Mint.com compared jobless t...   read more
  • U.S. Investment with Cuba Ready to Take Off

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    For the past 50 years, Cuba has successfully avoided the spread of technologies such as cell phones and new cars. But that may soon change as American companies eye the Cuban market and the momentum toward abolishing the trade embargo grows.   I...   read more
  • Libyan Chair of “Anti-Racism” Conference Confronted by Victim of Libyan Torture

    Thursday, April 23, 2009
    The United Nations Durban II conference on racism in Geneva last week attracted media coverage surrounding both the issue of the United States and other western nations boycotting the summit because of its anti-Israeli bias, and Iranian President ...   read more
  • Katrina Property Owners Sue Corps of Engineers

    Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    The US Army Corps of Engineers, builder of the levees and canals in New Orleans, has managed to dodge lawsuits that sought to blame the federal government for the destruction wrought on the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane K...   read more
  • Wiretapped Rep. Harman Accused of Intervening for Right-Wing Jewish Group

    Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    After allegedly declaring over the phone she would use her influence to help two Israeli lobbyists accused of spying, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) concluded by saying, “This conversation does not exist.” Guess again, congresswoman.   That conversatio...   read more
  • Taking a Lichen to Obama

    Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    In the words of Jai-Rui Chong of the Los Angeles Times, Kerry Knudsen, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside Herbarium, ”took a lichen” to President Barack Obama. Knudsen named a newfound species of lichen, Caloplaca obamae, afte...   read more
  • Overlooked U.S. Military Blunder in Africa

    Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    General William Ward, commander of AFRICOM (United States Africa Command), testified on March 17 before the Senate Armed Services Committee that a US-backed plan to root out the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northeastern Congo was a suc...   read more
  • Illinois Town Officials Hid Warnings about Toxic Tap Water

    Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    Officials of Crestwood, a village of 11,000 in Cook County, Illinois, used to proclaim that their water was “Good to taste but not to waste!” while cutting taxes as part of their fiscally-conservative municipal operation. Well, it turns out that c...   read more
  • Grandparent Power

    Wednesday, April 22, 2009
    Marketers obsessed with selling to young people may want to start looking at the other end of the age spectrum for big buying dollars. A new study commissioned by Grandparents.com reveals that grandma and grandpa are more likely to be flush with c...   read more
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